Progress in Optics (eBook)

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1993 | 1. Auflage
384 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-087991-8 (ISBN)

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Progress in Optics Volume 32

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Volume XXXII contains a number of review articles on recent developments in optics and related subjects. The first article presents an account of guided wave optics on silicon which is a subject of considerable current interest in the broad field of integrated optics, likely to influence the design and fabrication of various optical components. Chapter two provides an overview of the optical implementation of neural networks and discusses their design, models and architecture. The following article deals with applications of the path integral technique to the theory of wave propagation in random media, a technique used with considerable success in the last two decades for solutions of problems encountered in classical statistical wave theory. Methods for obtaining information on the relative location of objects in space are considered in the following chapter and includes an analysis of the potential accuracy and reliability of object location in the presence of additive Gaussian noise and a discussion of optical filters for localization of objects under various circumstances. The fifth article deals with the broad topic of radiation from uniformly moving sources. It considers the Vavilov-Cerenkov radiation, the Doppler effect in media, transition radiation and bremsstralung. These phenomena are of particular importance in the electrodynamics of continuous media, especially in a plasma. In the concluding article nonlinear optical plasmas in atoms and weakly relativistic plasmas are considered. The emphasis is on the specific properties of laser radiation that are important for inducing multiphoton processes and on nonlinear interactions of very intense laser pulses with electrons. All the articles are written by leading authorities in their respective fields, from all over the world.

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Progress in Optics, Volume XXXII 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 16
CHAPTER I. GUIDED-WAVE OPTICS ON SILICON: PHYSICS, TECHNOLOGY AND STATUS 20
§ 1. Introduction 22
§ 2. Physics and Analysis of Optical Waveguides 25
§ 3. Technology of Silicon-Based Optical Waveguides 44
§ 4. Guided-wave Optical Components on Silicon 57
§ 5. Active Waveguides on Silicon 68
§ 6. Conclusions 69
Acknowledgement 70
References 70
CHAPTER II. OPTICAL NEURAL NETWORKS: ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN AND MODELS 80
§ 1. Introduction 82
§ 2. Optical Associative Memory 85
§ 3. Optical Neural Networks 88
§ 4. Neural Network Models 99
§ 5. Redundant Interconnection Neural Networks 124
§ 6. Optical Implementation of Hamming Nets 132
§ 7. Information Storage Capacity 140
§ 8. Self-organizing Optical Neural Networks 150
§ 9. Conclusion 161
References 162
CHAPTER III. THE THEORY OF OPTIMAL METHODS FOR LOCALIZATION OF OBJECTS IN PICTURES 164
§ 1. Introduction 166
§ 2. The Accuracy and Reliability of the Localization of Two-Dimensional Objects on a Plane 168
§ 3. Localization of Objects on a Complex Background with a Minimum of Anomalous Errors 191
§ 4. Conclusion 218
Acknowledgements 219
References 219
CHAPTER IV. WAVE PROPAGATION THEORIES IN RANDOM MEDIA BASED ON THE PATH-INTEGRAL APPROACH 222
§ 1. Introduction 224
§ 2. Problem Formulation and Governing Equations 228
§ 3. Introduction to Path Integrals 236
§ 4. Path-Integral Representations of Wave Fields in Inhomogeneous Media 248
§ 5. Path-Integral Representations of Moments 260
§ 6. The Connection Between Heuristic Approximations and Path-Integral Representations 270
§ 7. Conclusions 280
Acknowledgements 281
References 281
CHAPTER V. RADIATION BY UNIFORMLY MOVING SOURCES Vavilov–Cherenkov effect, Doppler effect in a medium, transition radiation and associated phenomena 286
§ 1. Introduction 288
§ 2. Vavilov–Cherenkov Effect for a Charge 290
§ 3. Quantum Theory of the Vavilov–Cherenkov Effect 296
§ 4. Vavilov–Cherenkov Radiation in the Case of Motion in Channels and Gaps 298
§ 5. Vavilov–Cherenkov Radiation for Electric, Magnetic and Toroidal Dipoles 300
§ 6. Classical and Quantum Theories of the Doppler Effect in a Medium 307
§ 7. Acceleration Radiation 311
§ 8. Transition Radiation at the Boundary between two Media 313
§ 9. Transition Radiation as a more general Phenomenon. Formation Zone 318
§ 10. Transition Scattering. Transition Bremsstrahlung 322
§ 11. Transition Radiation, Transition Scattering and Transition Bremsstrahlung in a Plasma 325
§ 12. Concluding Remarks 328
References 330
CHAPTER VI. NONLINEAR OPTICAL PROCESSES IN ATOMS AND IN WEAKLY RELATIVISTIC PLASMAS 332
§ 1. Introduction 334
§ 2. Laser Light Polarization Effects 335
§ 3. Resonance Effects 336
§ 4. Laser Temporal-Coherence Effects in Nonresonant Multiphoton Ionization of Atoms 340
§ 5. Laser Temporal-Coherence Effects in Resonant Multiphoton Ionization of Atoms 351
§ 6. Relativistic Self-Focusing of a Laser Pulse in a Plasma 354
References 377
Author Index 382
Subject Index 392
Cumulative Index 396

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.12.1993
• Mitarbeit: Herausgeber (Serie): Emil Wolf
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Optik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• ISBN-10: 0-08-087991-8 / 0080879918
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-087991-8 / 9780080879918