| Laser beam shaping applications FM Dickey, TE Lizotte CRC press, 2017 | 337 | 2017 |
| Refractive optical systems for irradiance redistribution of collimated radiation: their design and analysis PW Rhodes, DL Shealy Applied optics 19 (20), 3545-3553, 1980 | 261 | 1980 |
| Laser beam shaping profiles and propagation DL Shealy, JA Hoffnagle Applied optics 45 (21), 5118-5131, 2006 | 174 | 2006 |
| Geometric optics-based design of laser beam shapers DL Shealy, SH Chao Optical Engineering 42 (11), 3123-3138, 2003 | 119 | 2003 |
| Simplified formula for the illuminance in an optical system DG Burkhard, DL Shealy Applied Optics 20 (5), 897-909, 1981 | 113 | 1981 |
| Flux density for ray propagation in geometrical optics DG Burkhard, DL Shealy JOSA 63 (3), 299-304, 1973 | 85 | 1973 |
| Flux density for ray propagation in discrete index media expressed in terms of the intrinsic geometry of the deflecting surface DL Shealy, DG Burkhard Optica Acta: International Journal of Optics 20 (4), 287-301, 1973 | 66 | 1973 |
| Design and optimization of an irradiance profile-shaping system with a genetic algorithm method NC Evans, DL Shealy Applied Optics 37 (22), 5216-5221, 1998 | 63 | 1998 |
| Wavefront and caustics of a plane wave refracted by an arbitrary surface DL Shealy, JA Hoffnagle JOSA A 25 (9), 2370-2382, 2008 | 62 | 2008 |
| Design of gradient-index lens systems for laser beam reshaping C Wang, DL Shealy Applied optics 32 (25), 4763-4769, 1993 | 62 | 1993 |
| Design of reflectors which will distribute sunlight in a specified manner DG Burkhard, DL Shealy Solar Energy 17 (4), 221-227, 1975 | 53 | 1975 |
| Design and testing of a refractive reshaping system W Jiang, DL Shealy, JC Martin Current Developments in Optical Design and Optical Engineering III 2000, 64-75, 1993 | 51 | 1993 |
| Analytical illuminance and caustic surface calculations in geometrical optics DL Shealy Applied Optics 15 (10), 2588-2596, 1976 | 49 | 1976 |
| Caustic surfaces and irradiance for reflection and refraction from an ellipsoid, elliptic paraboloid, and elliptic cone DL Shealy, DG Burkhard Applied Optics 12 (12), 2955-2959, 1973 | 47 | 1973 |
| Analytical illuminance calculation in a multi-interface optical system DL Shealy, DG Burkhard Optica Acta: International Journal of Optics 22 (6), 485-501, 1975 | 45 | 1975 |
| Design and analysis of a Schwarzschild imaging multilayer x-ray microscope DL Shealy, RB Hoover, TW Barbee Jr, ABC Walker II Optical Engineering 29 (7), 721-727, 1990 | 44 | 1990 |
| Refracting the k-function: Stavroudis’s solution to the eikonal equation for multielement optical systems JA Hoffnagle, DL Shealy JOSA A 28 (6), 1312-1321, 2011 | 38 | 2011 |
| Geometrical methods DL Shealy, JA Hoffnagle Laser Beam Shaping: Theory and Techniques 2000, 163-213, 2000 | 36 | 2000 |
| Theory of geometrical methods for design of laser beam shaping systems DL Shealy Laser Beam Shaping 4095, 1-15, 2000 | 35 | 2000 |
| Historical perspective of laser beam shaping DL Shealy Laser Beam Shaping III 4770, 28-47, 2002 | 33 | 2002 |
