D. 28. Sheppard CJR, Wilson T (1980) Fourier imaging of phase information in conventional and scanning microscopes, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. A 529, 513-536.
D. 43. Hamilton DK, Sheppard CJR (1982) A confocal interference microscope, Optica Acta 29, 1573-1577.
First demonstration of reflection-mode confocal interference microscopy. Also demonstrates balanced homodyne detection.
Reproduced in SPIE Milestone Series MS-131, Selected reprints on Confocal microscopy, BR Masters, ed. ISBN 0-8194-2376-6, pp 220-224
D. 66. Matthews HJ, Hamilton DK, Sheppard CJR (1986) Surface profiling by phase-locked interferometry, Appl. Optics 25, 2372-2374.
D. 69. Hamilton DK, Sheppard CJR (1986) Interferometric measurements of the complex amplitude of the defocus signal V(z) in the confocal scanning optical microscope, J. Appl. Phys. 60, 2708-2712.
Signal amplitude with defocus from a perfect reflector:
E.19. Sheppard CJR, Hamilton DK, Matthews HJ (1988) Confocal interference microscopy, ECO1, Hamburg, August 1988, Proc. SPIE 1028, 92-95.
D. 87. Matthews HJ, Hamilton DK, Sheppard CJR (1989) Aberration measurement by confocal interferometry, J. Mod. Opt. 36, 233-250.
C. 10. Sheppard CJR (1990) Confocal interference microscopy, in Confocal Microscopy, T. Wilson ed., Academic Press, London, pp. 389-411. ISBN 0 12 757270 8
D. 109. Sheppard CJR, Gong Y (1991) Improvement in axial resolution by interference confocal microscopy", Optik 87, 129-132.
D. 159. Zhou H, Gu M, Sheppard CJR (1995) Investigation of aberration measurement in confocal microscopy J. Mod. Opt., 42,627-638
D. 160. Zhou H, Gu M, Sheppard CJR (1994) Confocal interference microscopy: a difference between dry and immersion lenses, Optik 97, 94-100.
D. 174. Sheppard CJR, Larkin KG (1995) Effect of numerical aperture on interference fringe spacing, Appl. Opt., 34, 4731-4734
D. 181. Quartel JC, Sheppard CJR (1996) A surface reconstruction algorithm based on confocal interferometric imaging, J. Mod. Opt. 43 591-606
D. 184. Zhou H, Gu M, Sheppard CJR (1996) A compact confocal interference microscope based on a four-port single-mode fibre coupler, Optik, 103, 45-48
D. 201. Zhou H and Sheppard (1997) Aberration measurement in confocal microscopy: phase retrieval from a single intensity measurement, J. Mod. Opt. 44, 1553-1561
E.63. Sheppard CJR, Zhou H (1997) Confocal interference microscopy, Conference on Three-Dimensional Microscopy: Image Acquisition and Processing IV, San Jose, 8-14 February 1997, Proc. SPIE 2984, 85-89
E.64. Sheppard CJR (1997) Interferometric measurement of refractive index profiles for thin film characterisation, European Symposium on Lases and Optics in Manufacturing, Munich, 16-20 June 1997, Proc. SPIE 3098, 442-449
D. 224. Matsuda K, Barnes TH, Oreb BF and Sheppard CJR (1999) Focal-length measurement by multiple-beam shearing interferometry, Appl. Opt. 38, 3542-3548
E.73. Roy M, Cherel L and Sheppard CJR (1999) Geometric phase coherence probe microscope for surface profiling, 18th Congress of the International Commission for Optics, San Francisco, 2-6 August, Proc. SPIE 3749, pp.462-463
C. 32. Sheppard CJR, Roy M (2000) Image formation in optical coherence tomography and microscopy, Fifth International Conference on Optics Within Life Sciences OWLS V, Crete, 13-16 October 1998, in Optics and Lasers in Biomedicine and Culture, C Fotakis, T Papazoglou and C Kalpouzos, eds., Springer, Berlin, pp.281-284
E.79. Sheppard CJR, Roy M, Svahn (2000) Low-coherence interference microscopy at high numerical aperture, Optical sensisng, imaging and manipulation for biological and biomedical applications, Photonics Taiwan, Taipei 26-28 July, Proc. SPIE 4082 57-60, invited.
E.81. Roy M, Svahn P, Sheppard CJR (2000) Geometric phase low-coherence interference microscopy at high numerical aperture, International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, Calcutta, India, 18-20 December, Proceedings, Vol.2, SK Lahiri et al. eds., Allied Publishers, New Delhi, pp.560-562 ISBN 81-7764-103-4
D. 255. Roy M, Svahn P, Cherel L, Sheppard CJR Geometric phase-shifting for low coherence interference microscopy, Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 37, 631-641
D. 269. Sheppard CJR, Roy M, Sharma MD (2004) Image formation in low-coherence and confocal interference microscopes, Applied Optics, 43, 1493-1502
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D. 124. Sheppard CJR, Gu M (1992) Axial imaging through an aberrating layer of water in confocal microscopy. Opt. Commun. 88, 180-190.
D. 143. Sheppard CJR, Connolly TJ, Lee J, Cogswell C (1994) Confocal imaging of a stratified medium, Appl. Opt. 33, 631-640.
E.41. Sheppard CJR, Connolly TJ (1994) Confocal imaging of thin films, Conference on Three-dimensional Microscopy: Image acquisition and processing, San Jose, 7-8 Feb, Proc. SPIE 2184, 104-110.
D. 169. Sheppard CJR (1995) Approximate calculation of the reflection coefficient from a stratified medium, Pure and Applied Optics, 4, 665-669
Developed an approximate method for analyzing optical multi-layer coatings, valid for low reflectivity, which avoids the necessity for using matrices.
D. 223. Sheppard CJR and Aguilar F (1999) Fresnel coefficients for weak reflection, and the scattering potential for three-dimensional imaging, Opt. Commun. 162, 182-186
D. 247. Cox GC, Sheppard CJR (2001) Measurement of thin coatings in the confocal microscope, Micron, 32, 701-705
D. 33. Sheppard CJR, Wilson T (1981) Effects of high angles of convergence on V(z) in the scanning acoustic microscope, App. Phys. Lett. 38, 858-859.
D. 36. Hamilton DK, Wilson T, Sheppard CJR (1981) Experimental observations of the depth-discrimination properties of scanning microscopes, Opt. Letts.6, 625-626.
D. 42. Cox IJ, Hamilton DK, Sheppard CJR (1982) Observation of optical signatures of materials, Appl. Phys. Lett. 41, 604-606.
D. 46. Cox IJ, Sheppard CJR (1983) Digital image processing of confocal images, Image and Vision Computing 1, 52-56.
D. 54. Sheppard CJR, Heaton JM (1984) Images of surface steps in coherent illumination, Optik 68, 267-280.
D. 55. Sheppard CJR, Heaton JM (1984) Confocal images of straight edges and surface steps, Optik 68, 371-380.
E.12. Sheppard CJR (1984) Confocal imaging of surfaces with height variations, ICO-13, Sapporo, Japan, in Optics in modern science and technology, H Ohzu, ed., pp.502-503, International Commission for Optics.
D. 77. Sheppard CJR, Matthews HJ (1988) The extended focus, auto-focus and surface profiling techniques of confocal microscopy, J. Modern Optics 35, 145-154.
D. 86. Sheppard CJR, Carlini AR, Matthews HJ (1988) Three-dimensional imaging of phase steps, Optik 80, 91-94.
C. 30. Sheppard CJR, Quartel JC (1999) Surface profiling and confocal microscopy, in Focus on Multidimensional Microscopy, Vol. 2, PC Cheng, PP Hwang,JL Wu, G Wang, H Kim, eds., World Scientific. ISBN 981 02 3992 0
E.74. Aguilar JF and Sheppard CJR (1999) Limitations of the confocal imaging algorithm in surface profiling, 18th Congress of the International Commission for Optics, San Francisco, 2-6 August, Proc. SPIE 3749, pp.490-491
D. 236. Aguilar JF, Lera M, Sheppard CJR (2000) Imaging of spheres by confocal microscopy, Appl. Opt. 39, 4621-4628
D. 135. Sheppard CJR, Connolly TJ, Gu M (1993) Scattering by a one dimensional rough surface and surface reconstruction by confocal imaging, Phys. Rev. Letts. 70, 1409-1412.
Proposed a novel formulation for scattering in the reflection geometry, based on 3-D spatial frequencies, in the Kirchhoff approximation.
D. 146. Sheppard, C.J.R., Connolly T.J., and Gu Min (1993) Imaging and reconstruction for rough surface scattering in the Kirchhoff approximation by confocal microscopy, J. Mod. Opt. 40, 2407-2421.
E.37. Sheppard CJR, Connolly TJ, Gu Min (1993) A treatment of light scattering by rough surfaces in terms of the three-dimensional transfer function, The 16th Congress of the International Commission for Optics, Budapest, Hungary, Aug 9-13, 1993, Proc. SPIE 1983, 305-306.
E.38. Sheppard CJR (1993) A treatment of light scattering by a rough surface in terms of its three-dimensional spectrum, Int Conf on Holography, Correlation Optics and Recording Materials, Chernovtsy, Ukraine, 10-14 May, Proc. SPIE 2108, 238-242.
E.39. Sheppard CJR (1993) Light scattering problems in confocal scanning microscopy, Int Conf on Diffractometry and Scatterometry, Warsaw, Poland, 24-28 May, Proc. SPIE 1991, 151-158.
D. 166. Sheppard CJR, Connolly TJ (1995) Imaging of random surfaces, J. Mod. Opt..42, 861-881
E.49. Sheppard CJR, Quartel JC and Roy M (1995) Scattering and imaging of random media, International Conference on Holography and Correlation Optics, Chernovtsy, Ukraine, 15-19 May 1995, Proc. SPIE 2647, 13-19
D. 176. Sheppard CJR (1996) Scattering by fractal surfaces with an outer scale, Opt. Commun. 122, 178-188
D. 178. Sheppard CJR (1996) Simplified expressions for the bidirectional reflectance distribution function, J. Mod. Opt. 42 373-380
D. 182. Sheppard CJR, Roy M (1996) Total integrated scatter in the Kirchhoff approximation, Optik, 103, 42-44
D. 205. Sheppard CJR (1998) Imaging of random surfaces and inverse scattering in the Kirchhoff approximation, Waves in Random Media, 8, 53-66
E.66. Matsuda K, Roy M, Fekete PW, Eiju T, Sheppard CJR, O'Byrne JW (1998) A novel method for beam collimation using multiple beam shearing interferometry, SPIE Conference on Flatness, Roughness and Discrete Defects Characterization for Computer Disks, Wafers and Flat Panel Displays II, San Jose 29-30 January 1998, Proc. SPIE 3275 2-8
E.70. Matsuda K, Sheppard CJR, O’Byrne JW, Roy M, Fekete PW and Eiju T (1998) A novel method for straightness measurements using a reflection confocal optical system; ISATA, Munich, Proc. Conf. Optical and Laser Metrology in the Automotive Industry and Innovative Management, D. Roller, ed., ISATA, Croydon, UK, pp.93-98
Awarded the 1998 ISATA Daimler-Benz Award.
D. 225. Matsuda K, Roy M, O'Byrne JW, Fekete PW, Eiju T and Sheppard CJR (1999) Straightness measurements by use of a reflection confocal optical system, Appl. Opt. 38, 5310-5318
D. 227. Matsuda K, Barnes TH, Oreb BF and Sheppard CJR (1999) Position magnifying sensor, Opt. Commun. 170, 309-318
E.75. Matsuda K, Eiju T, Roy M, O'Byrne JW, Fekete PW and Sheppard CJR (1999) Sraightness measurement using a reflection confocal optical system, 18th Congress of the International Commission for Optics, San Francisco, 2-6 August, Proc. SPIE 3749, pp.589-490
D. 238. Matsuda K, Bold GT, Barnes TH, Eiju T, Sheppard CJR (2000) Real-time phase-difference amplification with a liquid-crystal spatial light modulator, Appl. Opt. 39, 5125-5130
D. 254. Matsuda K, O’Byrne JW, Sheppard CJR, Rehman S, Eiju T (2001) Beam collimation in the presence of aberrations, Opt. Commun. 194, 1-9
D. 257. Matsuda K, Roy M, Eiju T, O’Byrne J, Sheppard CJR (2002) Straightness measurements with a reflection confocal optical system – an experimental study, Appl. Opt. 41, 3966-3970
D. 267. Matsuda K, Bold GT, Barnes TH, Eiju T, Sheppard CJR (2003) Near-real-time phase difference amplification using multiple-beam interferometry and a liquid-crystal-phase-only spatial light modulator, Opt. Eng. 42, 3537-3544
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