Contents [Optica Applicata, Vol. 28, 1998, nr 2]

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Vol. XXVIII (98) No. 2

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INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS, TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF WROCŁAW, POLAND

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SPIE/POLAND CHAPTER in association with SPIE—THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY

FOR OPTICAL ENGINEERING

Contents

Shahid Nisar Ahmad, Diffraction of a cylindrical electromagnetic wave by a dielectric

half-plane... 71

Niedziela T., Stankiewicz A , Jaroszewicz L· R , Merta L, Method for extraction

of contours for identifying characteristic information in noisy im a g e s... 81

Nowak P., Modelling of the modulation transfer function of silver halide

light-sensitive layer including D IR and DAR dye c o u p le rs... 95

Radcowski B., Nowak P., Model investigations of the influence of adjacency edge

effects on the shape and properties of the limiting curve in the silver halide light-sensitive m a te ria ls... 105

Dabu R., Fenic C., Stratan A , Luculescu C., Muscalu L , Tunable doubly resonant

optical parametric oscillator with LBO and K TP crystals pumped by second harmonic of a nanosecond Nd:YAG l a s e r ... 115

Kowalczyk M., Zapata G , Silvestre E , Martinez-Corral M., Phase pupil filters

for improvement of the axial resolution in confocal scanning m icroscopy... 127

Litwin D , Adel M. Sadik, Computer-aided variable wavelength Fourier transform

polarizing microscopy of bireiringent fib e rs ... 139

Letter to the Editor

Latacz L , Nowak P., Computer modelling of modulation transfer function and

characteristic curve of AgHal light-sensitive layers containig a d y e ... 155

Teaching optics

Nowak J., Zając M , Comparison study of imaging quality of refracting, diffractive and