Progress in Optics (eBook)

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2011 | 1. Auflage
382 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-087985-7 (ISBN)

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Progress in Optics Volume 5

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Progress in Optics, Volume V 6
Copyright Page 7
CONTENTS 10
PREFACE 8
CHAPTER I. OPTICAL PUMPING 14
1. INTRODUCTION 16
2. PRINCIPLES OF OPTICAL PUMPING 18
3. RESULTS OBTAINED BY OPTICAL PUMPING 54
4. PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF OPTICAL PUMPING 85
5. EXTENSIONS OF OPTICAL-PUMPING TECHNIQUES 90
REFERENCES 91
CHAPTER II. NON-LINEAR OPTICS 96
1. INTRODUCTION 98
2. MAXWELL’S EQUATIONS 100
3. NON-LINEAR SOURCE TERMS 104
4. METHODS FOR SOLVING THE WAVE EQUATION 119
5. EXPERIMENTS 135
6. CONCLUSION 153
ACKNOWLEDGMENT 154
REFERENCES 154
CHAPTER III. TWO-BEAM INTERFEROMENTRY 158
1. INTRODUCTION 160
2. COHERENCE THEORY 167
3. MEASUREMENTS OF AVERAGE PHASE 180
4. MEASUREMENTS OF PHASE VARIATIONS 183
5. INTERFERENCE SPECTROSCOPY 196
6. STUDIES OF SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS 203
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 207
REFERENCES 207
CHAPTER IV. INSTRUMENTS FOR THE MEASURING OF OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTIONS 212
1. INTRODUCTION 214
2. SCANNING METHOD WITH OPTICAL FOURIER ANALYSIS 217
3. SCANNING METHOD WITH OPTO-ELECTRIC FOURIER ANALYSIS 233
4. SCANNING METHOD WITH ELECTRIC FOURIER ANALYSIS 240
5. AUTO-CORRELATION METHOD 246
6. CROSS-CORRELATION METHOD 250
7. MEASUREMENT OF OTF AT A CERTAIN SPATIAL FREQUENCY 251
8. CONCLUSION 256
ACKNOWLEDGMENT 257
REFERENCES 257
CHAPTER V. LIGHT REFLECTION FROM FILMS OF CONTINUOUSLY VARYING REFRACTIVE INDEX 260
1. INTRODUCTION 262
2. BASIC THEORY OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES IN STRATIFIED MEDIA 263
3. APPROXIMATE METHODS 271
4. SOME GENERAL THEOREMS CONCERNING STRATIFIED MEDIA 282
5. INFLUENCE OF SMALL INHOMOGENEITIES ON OPTICAL MEASUREMENTS 284
6. STRONGLY INHOMOGENEOUS SINGLE LAYERS 289
7. CONCLUDING REMARKS 297
REFERENCES 297
CHAPTER VI. X-RAY CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE DETERMINATION AS A BRANCH OF PHYSICAL OPTICS 300
1. GENERAL PRINCIPLES 302
2. OPTICAL ANALOGUE METHODS 304
3. THEORETICAL TREATMENT OF SCATTERING 305
4. THE RELATION BETWEEN THE GEOMETRIES OF THE DIFFRACTION OF LIGHT AND OF X-RAYS 310
5. OPTICAL EQUIVALENCE 314
6. APPARATUS 319
7. PROCEDURE IN USING OPTICAL METHODS 326
8. RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHER METHODS 335
9. INTERPRETATION OF WEIGHTED RECIPROCAL LATTICES 337
10. IMAGE RECOMBINATION 345
11. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND FUTURE POSSIBILITIES 349
12. OTHER USES OF THE DIFFRACTOMETER 355
13. CONCLUSIONS 360
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 360
APPENDIX: RELATIONSHIP TO BRAGG'S LAW 361
REFERENCES 361
CHAPTER VII. THE WAVE OF A MOVING CLASSICAL ELECTRON 364
1. THE OSCILLATORY FIELD OF AN ELECTRON IN ITS REST SYSTEM 366
2. THE WAVE OF AN ELECTRON WHlCH IS MOVING AT A CONSTANT VELOCITY 369
3. THE ‘SURFACES OF EQUAL AMPLITUDE’ AND THE ‘RADIATION-DENSITY' 372
4. THE WAVE EQUATION OF THE MOVING ELECTRON 374
5. THE WAVE EQUATION FOR THE INTERIOR OF A MAVING ELECTRON 374
6. THE INHOMOGENEOUS WAVE OF THE ELECTRON REGARDED AS A SUPERPOSITION OF A DOUBLY INFINITE FAMILY OF (INHOMOGENEOUS) PLANE WAVES (WITH PLANE 'SURFACES OF EQUAL AMPLITUDE') PLANE WAVES (WITH PLANE 'SURFACES OF EQUAL AMPLITUDE') AND AS A SUPERPOSITION OF A SINGLY INFINITE FAMILY OF HEAD-WAVES 377
7. THE WAVE OF A MOVING ELECTRON REGARDED AS A SUPERPOSITION OF 'WAVE-GROUPS', OR OF 3 'PLANE WAVES' OF CONSTANT AMPLITUDE, BUT OF DIFFERENT FREQUENCIES 379
8.THE RELATIVISTIC 'APPARENT ABSORPTION' OF SPACE 381
ACKNOWLEDGMENT 383
REFERENCES 383
AUTHOR INDEX 384
SUBJECT INDEX 391

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.9.2011
• Mitarbeit: Herausgeber (Serie): Emil Wolf
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Optik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• ISBN-10: 0-08-087985-3 / 0080879853
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-087985-7 / 9780080879857