Progress in optics. Volume 53 /

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Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2009.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 458 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Progress in optics ; 53
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12377634
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Other authors / contributors:Wolf, Emil.
ISBN:9780080964171
0080964176
9780444533609
0444533605
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Summary:In the forty-eight years that have gone by since the first volume of Progress in Optics was published, optics has become one of the most dynamic fields of science. The volumes in this series which have appeared up to now contain more than 300 review articles by distinguished research workers, which have become permanent records for many important developments. - 3D optical microscopy - Transformation optics and geometry of light - Photorefractive solitons - Stimulated scattering effects - Optical vortices and polarization singularities - Quantum feedforward control of light.
Other form:Print version: Progress in optics. Volume 53. 1st ed. Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2007 9780444533609
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; Progress in Optics; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. The Resolution Challenge in 3D Optical Microscopy; 1. Introduction; 2. Basic Theory for Microscope Imaging; 3. The High-Numerical-Aperture Approach; 4. Optical-Sectioning Microscopy; 5. Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 2. Transformation Optics and the Geometry of Light; 1. Introduction; 2. Fermat's Principle; 3. Arbitrary Coordinates; 4. Maxwell's Equations; 5. Transformation Media; 6. Conclusions; Acknowledgments; Appendix A; References
  • Chapter 3. Photorefractive Solitons and Their Underlying Nonlocal Physics1. Introduction; 2. Observing a Photorefractive Soliton; 3. Charge Migration and Intrinsic Spatial and Temporal Scales; 4. Nonlinear Beam Propagation; 5. Intrinsic Scales and a Condition for a Local Kerr-Like Soliton; 6. Observable Effects of Spatial Nonlocality in 1D Solitons; 7. Nonlocality and Anisotropy in 2D Solitons; 8. Conclusions and Perspective; References; Chapter 4. Stimulated Scattering Effects of Intense Coherent Light; 1. Historical Remark of Stimulated Scattering Studies
  • 2. Scope and Organization of This Review3. Stimulated Raman Scattering; 4. Stimulated Brillouin Scattering; 5. Stimulated Rayleigh-Wing Scattering and Stimulated Thermal Rayleigh Scattering; 6. Stimulated Kerr Scattering; 7. Stimulated Rayleigh-Bragg Scattering; 8. Phase-Conjugation Property of Backward-Stimulated Scattering; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 5. Singular Optics: Optical Vortices and Polarization Singularities; 1. Introduction; 2. Historical Review of Vortices in Optics; 3. Creating an Optical Vortex; 4. The Structure of Optical Phase Singularities
  • 5. Vortices in Random Wavefields6. Optical Vortices and Angular Momentum; 7. Polarization Singularities; 8. Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 6. Quantum Feed-Forward Control of Light; 1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical Feed-Forward Tools; 3. Experimental Feed-Forward Tools; 4. Applications of Feed-Forward; 5. Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; Author Index for Volume 53; Subject Index for Volume 53; Contents of Previous Volumes; Cumulative Index-Volume 1-53