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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 6 Volume 6 Numbers 1/2 January-April 1991 Papers from Australia l Editorial Theory of channel optical waveguides K. S. Chiang Soliton interaction in optical fibre couplers A. Ankiewicz and G.-D. Peng Sub-Poisson light from GaAlAs infrared emitting diodes P. J. Edwards Optical bistability in a hydrogenated amorphous silicon Fabry—Perot etalon Z. Y. Xu, J. Tann, M. Gal, K. Gaughan, I. Viohl and P. C. Taylor Surface wave polarizer for optical fibres R. Dragila and S. Vukovic Optical amplifiers based on phosphorus co-doped rare-earth-doped optical fibres R. A. Betts, F. F. Ruhl, T. M. Kwok and G. F. Zheng Comparison of stress distributions between mechanically homogeneous and inhomogeneous fibres D. Wong and P. L. Chu Evaluation of a colour glass filter for extended distance fibre-optic temperature sensing P. J. Samson and P. C. Hills Assessment of special fibres for distributed anti-Stokes Raman ratio thermometry G. W. Bryant, A. T. Paton, J. C. Scott and A. D. Stuart Theory of acoustic sensing using optical fibres Y. Zhao and M. G. Sceats Flow profile modelling at the immersed tip of an optical fibre and its application to the fibre-optic laser Doppler anemometer S. C. Tjin, P. R. Johnston and D. Kirkpatrick Contents of volume 6 Fibre-optic coupler fabrication at AOFR A. J. Stevenson and S. A. Barr OSNET™™— an engineered fibre-optic sensing system for industrial applications M. C. Elias and S. J. Strach Hybrid optical/electronic imaging systems C. J. R. Sheppard and C. J. Cogswell An artificial seeing system copying insect vision G. A. Horridge and P. Sobey Volume 6 Number 3 May-June 1991 Papers from OSCA 195 Editorial 197 A study of fibre-optic techniques for gas sensing C. A. Wade and I. Bennion 217 Remote multiplexed fibre-optic laser-diode spectroscopy for gas sensing B. C. H. Turton, A. Mohebati and T. A. King 227 Evanescent-wave chemical sensors — a theoretical evaluation G. Stewart, J. Norris, D. F. Clark and B. Culshaw Regular papers 239 Invited paper: Semiconductor wavelength tunable optical filters T. Numai 253 On the potential of human vision systems and anthropomorphic technical systems V. M. Ginzberg A generalized, programmable integrated optical matrix processor using frequency multiplexed SAW acousto-electro-optic effect C. De Cusatis, P. Das and D. M. Litynski Developments in optical sensors for use in vehicles C. P. Cockshott Contents of volume 6 Letter: Anomalous wavelength dependence of microbending losses in single-mode fibres H. Renner Letter: The effects of contrast on time/space multiplexed grey scale in monotonic SLMs A. R. L. Travis and S. R..Lang Volume 6 Number 4 July-August 1991 OSCA papers 305 Optical sensing techniques in flowmetering G. Dickinson 319 An optically-addressed vortex-shedder flow-meter B. C. B. Chu, T. P. Newson, A. S. Gerges and D. A. Jackson 333 Differential-pressure transmitter with fibre-optic links using wavelength modulation B. E. Jones and R. C. Spooncer Regular papers 339 Invited paper: Recent advances in electro-optic coherence multiplexing J.-P. Goedgebuer, H. Porte and R. Ferriere Influence of field-dependent carrier mobility and surface preparation of GaAs samples in optoelectronic switching experiments H. Bergner, V. Briickner, M. Lenzner, H. Li and R. Strobel Analysis of Zn-diffused semiconductor slab waveguides: exact solution and WKB approximation C. Wu, T. Touam and S. I. Najafi Development of high temperature humidity sensors based on porous optical fibers J. Y. Ding. M. R. Shahriari and G. H. Sigel, Jr. Measurement of a water surface using the image of a grating-edge detection using a Gaussian function J. Kurata, K. T. V. Grattan, H. Uchiyama and T. Tanaka Contents of volume 6 Volume 6 Number 5 September—October 1991 Medical Optoelectronics 405 Editorial 407 pH measurements with dyes co-immobilization on optodes: principles and associated instrumentation G. Boisde, F. Blanc and X. Machuron-Mandard Biomedical applications of fibre optic chemical sensors O. S. Wolfbeis In vivo entero-gastric reflux detection by optical fibres R. Falciai, F. Baldini, P. Bechi and F. Cosi The use of multichannel infrared fibre optic sensors for controlled microwave heating S. Drizlikh, A. Zur and A. Katzir Biomedical applications of excimer lasers R. Salimbeni, R. Pini and R. Pratesi Laser-induced fluorescence in biomedical applications R. Cubeddu, F. Docchio, R. Ramponi and P. Taroni Holography and endoscopy G. von Bally The clinical application of low incident power density 830 nm GaAlAs diode laser radiation in the therapy of chronic intractable pain: A historical and optoelectronic rationale and clinical review K. C. Moore and R. G. Calderhead Volume 6 Number 6 November—December 1991 OSCA papers 521 Wavelength division multiplexed optical-fibre sensor systems aad networks J. M. Senior and S. D. Cusworth Incremental control of a valve actuator employing optopneumatic conversion K. F. Hale, C. Clark, R. F. Duggan and B. E. Jones Contents of volume 6 545 The safety of optical systems in hazardous areas G. Tortoishell Regular papers Investigation of optical tapers by means of selective mode excitation T. Eftimov, T. Kortenski and T. Vulkova Laser noise characteristics in fibre optic analogue transmission Y. Takahashi, T. P. Tanaka and H. Nakano Fully planar ion-exchanged glass channel waveguides with grating taps M.-J. Li and S. I. Najafi A fast light source for photogeneration of free charge carriers in time of flight experiments S. M. Vaezi-Nejad and D. B. Shiers Short communication 595 A new delayed self-homodyne technique for laser spectral linewidth measurement M. Ferreira, S. Hamidi, X. Shan, A. S. Siddiqui, Z. S. Siddiqui and D. Simeonidou Book reviews Index of authors