Progress in Optics (eBook)

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2000 | 1. Auflage
479 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-096291-7 (ISBN)

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The publication of volume forty of Progress in Optics marks a significant milestone. Volume one was published in 1961, a year after the invention of the laser, an event which triggered a wealth of new and exciting developments. Many of them have been reported in the 234 review articles published in this series since its inception.The present volume contains six review articles on a variety of subjects of current research interests. The first is concerned with polarimetric optical fibers and sensors, and reviews the main efforts and achievements in this field within the last two decades.The second article presents a review of recent researches on digital optical computing. After introducing the basic concepts needed for understanding the developments in this field, some feasibility experiments as well as software studies are discussed.

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Progress in Optics, Volume XL 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 8
Preface 6
CHAPTER I. POLARIMETRIC OPTICAL FIBERS AND SENSORS 16
1. Introduction 18
2. Polarization Phenomena in Optical Fibers 19
3. Birefringence in Optical Fibers 37
4. Deformation Effects in Highly Birefringent Fibers 43
5. Application of Polarization Effects 67
6. Conclusions and Future Perspectives 84
Acknowledgements 85
References 85
CHAPTER II. DIGITAL OPTICAL COMPUTING 92
1. Introduction 94
2. Basic Concepts 94
3. Logic Gates 98
4. Methods for Logic Construction 103
5. Demonstration Systems 108
6. Software Research 116
7. Further Directions 125
8. Conclusion 125
References 126
CHAPTER III. CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENTS IN QUANTUM OPTICS 130
1. Introduction 133
2. The Mandel and Srinivas–Davies Approaches to Modeling Photodetection 136
3. Reversibility and Irreversibility of Photocounting 150
4. Models of Continuous Measurement 163
5. Probability-density Functional for Quantum Photodetection Processes 184
6. Quasicontinuous Schemes of Photodetection 188
7. Special States of an Optical Mode by Means of Continuous and Nearly Continuous Measurements on this Mode 197
8. Production of Correlated Photons 200
9. Conditional Generation of Special States Using Ideal State Reduction of Entangled Fields 204
10. Special States of One or Two Optical Modes by Means of Continuous Measurement on a Different Mode 241
11. Eigenvalue Problems for Intelligent States Generated in Ideal and Continuous Measurements 256
12. Conclusion 272
Acknowledgements 273
Appendix A. Superoperator-valued Measure and Related Concepts 273
Appendix B. Itô’s Calculus Without Itô’s Differential 276
References 277
CHAPTER IV. OPTICAL SYSTEMS WITH IMPROVED RESOLVING POWER 286
1. Introduction 288
2. The Space–Bandwidth Product (SW) As a Tool for Super Resolution Studies 290
3. Super Resolution as SW Adaptation 297
4. Super Resolution Based on Temporal Constraints 308
5. The Generalized Wigner Function for the Analysis of Super-Resolution Systems 327
6. Super Resolution for Objects With Finite Size 335
7. Wavelength-Multiplexing Super Resolution 344
8. Conclusions 353
List of Abbreviations and Symbols 354
Acknowledgements 354
References 355
CHAPTER V. DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS: ELECTROMAGNETIC APPROACH 358
1. Introduction 360
2. Some Resonance-Domain Effects 361
3. Electromagnetic Theory of Gratings 364
4. Linear Gratings Operating in First-Order Mode 374
5. Linear Gratings Operating in Zeroth-Order Mode 379
6. Modulated Gratings Operating in First-Order Mode 386
7. Modulated Gratings Operating in Zeroth-Order Mode 389
8. Gratings Operating in Multi-Order Mode 392
9. Conclusions 398
References 399
CHAPTER VI. SPECTROSCOPY IN POLYCHROMATIC FIELDS 404
1. Introduction 406
2. Subharmonic Resonances 409
3. Theoretical Methods 413
4. Bichromatic Fields 424
5. Polychromatic Fields,P=3 446
Acknowledgments 453
References 454
Author Index 458
Subject Index 472
Contents of Previous Volumes 476
Cumulative Index 486

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.2.2000
• Mitarbeit: Herausgeber (Serie): Emil Wolf
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Optik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• ISBN-10: 0-08-096291-2 / 0080962912
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-096291-7 / 9780080962917