Progress in Optics (eBook)

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1991 | 1. Auflage
437 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-096288-7 (ISBN)

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Progress in Optics Volume 29

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This volume presents five authoritative review articles on optics and related subjects. The first article deals with important components of many opto-electronic systems, namely waveguide diffraction gratings. It presents an account of the use of waveguide gratings as well as a quantitative review of the properties of optical waveguides. The second article discusses the phenomenon of enhanced backscattering, which has attracted a good deal of attention in recent years. It contains an account of research carried out mainly but not exclusively in the U.S.S.R.. The generation and propagation of ultrashort optical pulses as well as some linear and non-linear effects which arise when such pulses propagate in free space or in material media, is dealt with in the next article. It also includes accounts of the use of ultrashort pulses in the fields of optical communications and data processing. The fourth article presents a brief review of several interferometric methods for overcoming the degradation of image quality caused by atmospheric fluctuations, including the so-called speckle masking method, speckle spectroscopy methods and optical long baseline interferometry with arrays of large telescopes. The concluding article deals with non-linear optical properties of semiconductors and metal crystallites in dielectric matrices. A good understanding of these properties is required when choosing the most appropriate materials for manufacturing devices which utilize several non-linear optical effects. Such devices would be particularly useful in connection with processing and transmission of information and their performance might eventually surpass those of present-day electronics.

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Progress in Optics, Volume XXIX 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 16
CHAPTER I. OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE DIFFRACTION GRATINGS: COUPLING BETWEEN GUIDED MODES 22
1. Introduction 24
2. Uses for Waveguide Gratings 26
3. Modes Supported by Planar Optical Waveguides 35
4. Nonplanar Optical Waveguides 50
5. Coupling Between Guided Waves 51
6. Summary 80
List of Symbols 81
References 83
CHAPTER II. ENHANCED BACKSCATTERING IN OPTICS 86
1. Introduction 88
2. Enhanced Backscatter from Solids Immersed in a Turbulent Medium 90
3. Enhanced Backscattering by a Random Medium 144
4. Multipath Coherent Effects in Scattering from a Limited Cluster of Scatterers 189
5. Enhanced Backscattering from Rough Surfaces 204
6. Related Effects in Allied Fields of Physics 207
7. Conclusion 210
Acknowledgment 211
References 211
CHAPTER III. GENERATION AND PROPAGATION OF ULTRASHORT OPTICAL PULSES 220
1. Introduction 222
2. Theoretical Background 223
3. Generation of Femtosecond Optical Pulses 241
4. Propagation Effects 265
5. Conclusion 305
Acknowledgments 305
References 305
CHAPTER IV. TRIPLE-CORRELATION IMAGING IN OPTICAL ASTRONOMY 314
1. Introduction 316
2. Speckle Masking: Bispectrum or Triple Correlation Processing 317
3. Objective Prism Speckle Spectroscopy 330
4. Wideband Projection Speckle Spectroscopy 330
5. Optical Long-Baseline Interferometry and Aperture Synthesis 332
6. Concluding Remarks 336
Acknowledgment 337
Appendix A 337
References 338
CHAPTER V. NONLINEAR OPTICS IN COMPOSITE MATERIALS 1. Semiconductor and Metal Crystallites in Dielectrics 342
1. Introduction 344
2. Fabrication and Characterization Techniques 346
3. Confinement Effects 359
4. Nonlinear Optical Properties of Metal Composites 389
5. Nonlinear Optical Properties of Semiconductor Composites: Theory 396
6. Nonlinear Optical Properties of Semiconductor Composites: Experimental Studies 404
7. Conclusions and Extensions 425
References 427
Author Index 434
Subject Index 448
Cumulative Index, Volumes I-XXIX 452

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.10.1991
• Mitarbeit: Herausgeber (Serie): Emil Wolf
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Optik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• ISBN-10: 0-08-096288-2 / 0080962882
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-096288-7 / 9780080962887