Review of Scientific Instruments, 2004, V 75, N 3, March.

REVIEW ARTICLE

 Optical communication components
Louay Eldada
pp. 575-593

ARTICLES


OPTICS; ATOMS and MOLECULES; SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTON DETECTORS 
 
 Power spectrum analysis for optical tweezers
Kirstine Berg-Sorensen and Henrik Flyvbjerg
pp. 594-612

 Intense narrow-bandwidth extreme ultraviolet laser system tunable up to 20 eV
P. Rupper and F. Merkt
pp. 613-622

 Minimization of the acquisition time in energy dispersive x-ray diffraction
 measurements on dised systems
 V. Rossi Albertini and B. Paci
 pp. 623-629

 Effective suppression of fluorescence light in Raman measurements
 using ultrafast time gated charge coupled device camera
 D. V. Martyshkin, R. C. Ahuja, A. Kudriavtsev, and S. B. Mirov
 pp. 630-635

 Femtosecond spectral snapshots based on electronic optical Kerr effect
 R. Nakamura and Y. Kanematsu
 pp. 636-644

 The plasma mirror—A subpicosecond optical switch for ultrahigh power lasers
 B. Dromey, S. Kar, M. Zepf, and P. Foster
 pp. 645-649

NUCLEAR PHYSICS, FUSION and PLASMAS 
 
 Edge rotation and temperature diagnostic on the National Spherical
 Torus Experiment
 T. M. Biewer, R. E. Bell, R. Feder, D. W. Johnson, and R. W. Palladino
 pp. 650-654

 Application of microwave reflectometry to register Alfven wave
 resonances in the TCABR tokamak
 L. F. Ruchko, R. Valencia, R. M. O. Galvao, E. A. Lerche, A. G. Elfimov,
 V. Bellintani, Jr., J. I. Elizondo, A. N. Fagundes, A. M. M. Fonseca, 
 Yu. K. Kuznetsov, I. C. Nascimento, W. P. de Sa, E. Sanada, 
 and R. P. da Silva
 pp. 655-660

 Ion temperature and plasma rotation profile effects in the
 neutron emission spectrum
 M. Tardocchi, G. Gorini, H. Henriksson, and J. Kallne
 pp. 661-668

 24 kA solid state switch for plasma discharge experiments
 P. Pribyl and W. Gekelman
 pp. 669-673

 Instrument reflections and scene amplitude modulation in
 a polychromatic microwave quadrature interferometer
 Chris C. Dobson, Jonathan E. Jones, and D. Gregory Chavers
 pp. 674-683

MICROSCOPY and IMAGING 
 
 Nondestructive high spatial resolution imaging with a 60 GHz
 near-field scanning millimeter-wave microscope
 Myungsik Kim, Jooyoung Kim, Hyun Kim, Songhui Kim, 
 Jongil Yang, Hyunjun Yoo, Sunmi Kim, Kiejin Lee, 
 and Barry Friedman
 pp. 684-688

 Removing interference and optical feedback artifacts in atomic
 force microscopy measurements by application of high frequency
 laser current modulation
 Roel Kassies, Kees O. van der Werf, Martin L. Bennink, and Cees Otto
 pp. 689-693

 Low temperature scanning contact potentiometry
S. Reymond and O. Fischer
pp. 694-698

CONDENSED MATTER; MATERIALS 
 
 Control of synchrotron x-ray diffraction by means of standing acoustic waves
 E. Zolotoyabko and J. P. Quintana
 pp. 699-708

 Molybdenum cell for x-ray diffraction measurements of fluid alkali metals
 at high temperatures and high pressures
 Kazuhiro Matsuda, Kozaburo Tamura, Masahiro Katoh, and Masanori Inui
 pp. 709-712

 Instrument for the investigation of the nanostructure of Pu and other actinides
 T. W. Trelenberg, S. C. Glade, T. E. Felter, J. G. Tobin, and A. V. Hamza
 pp. 713-718

 Synthesis of aluminum nitride films by plasma immersion ion 
 implantation–deposition using hybrid gas–metal cathodic arc gun
 Liru Shen, Ricky K. Y. Fu, and Paul K. Chu
 pp. 719-724

CHEMISTRY 
 
 Investigation of volatile liquid surfaces by synchrotron x-ray 
 spectroscopy of liquid microjets
 Kevin R. Wilson, Bruce S. Rude, Jared Smith, Chris Cappa, 
 D. T. Co, R. D. Schaller, M. Larsson, T. Catalano, and R. J. Saykally
 pp. 725-736

 Slotted-plate apparatus to measure yield stress of suspensions
 L. Zhu, K. D. Papadopoulos, and D. De Kee
 pp. 737-740

BIOLOGY and MEDICINE 
 
 Optical monitor for measuring the amplitude and phase of perturbations
 on the surface of a capillary jet in a high-speed cell sorter
 Bob M. Lansdorp, Peter I. Nelson, Timothy W. Petersen, and Ger van den Engh
 pp. 741-746

 New bioreactor for in situ simultaneous measurement of bioluminescence
 and cell density
 Pascal Picart, Loubna Bendriaa, Philippe Daniel, Habib Horry, 
 Marie-Jose Durand, Laurent Jouvanneau, and Gerald Thouand
 pp. 747-755

 Soft x-ray magnetic circular dichroism at 2 K: A tool in biological
 inorganic chemistry
 T. Funk, S. Friedrich, A. T. Young, E. Arenholz, R. Delano,
 and S. P. Cramer
 pp. 756-759

 Respiratory monitoring system based on the nasal pressure technique
 for the analysis of sleep breathing diss: Reduction of static and dynamic
 errors, and comparisons with thermistors and pneumotachographs
 Jayme Alves de Mesquita Junior and Pedro Lopes de Melo
 pp. 760-767

ELECTRONICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC TECHNOLOGY; MICROWAVES 
 
 Circuit and technique for characterizing switching delay history effects
 in silicon-on-insulator logic gates
 Mark B. Ketchen, Manjul Bhushan, and Carl J. Anderson
 pp. 768-771

GENERAL INSTRUMENTS 
 
 Quartz capillary flow meter for gases
 Robert F. Berg
 pp. 772-779

 Technique for measuring the groove density of a diffraction grating with
 elimination of the eccentricity effect
 Jun Lim and Seungyu Rah
 pp. 780-782

 Newly designed graded screen array for particle size measurements
 of unattached radon decay products
 Kumiko Fukutsu, Yuji Yamada, Shinji Tokonami, and Takao Iida
 pp. 783-787

LETTERS

 Comment on "Implementing of a precision fast thermoelectric
 cooler using a personal computer parallel port connection
 and ADN8830 controller" [Rev. Sci. Instrum. 74, 3862 (2003)]
A. W. Sloman
pp. 788-789