Progress in Optics (eBook)

Emil Wolf (Herausgeber)

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2007 | 1. Auflage
384 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-093194-4 (ISBN)

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In the fourty-six 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 nearly 300 review articles by distinguished research workers, which have become permanent records for many important developments.

- Historial Overview
- Attosecond Laser Pulses
- History of Conical refraction
- Particle Concept of Light
- Field Quantization in Optics
- History of Near-Field Optics
- History of Tunneling
- Influence of Young's Interference Experiment ob Development of Statistical optics
- Planck, Photon Statistics and Bose-Einstein Condensation

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In the fourty-six 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 nearly 300 review articles by distinguished research workers, which have become permanent records for many important developments. - Historical Overview- Attosecond Laser Pulses- History of Conical Refraction- Particle Concept of Light- Field Quantization in Optics- History of Near-Field Optics- History of Tunneling- Influence of Young's Interference Experiment on Development of Statistical optics- Planck, Photon Statistics and Bose-Einstein Condensation

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Progress in Optics, Volume 50 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 10
Preface 8
Chapter 1. From millisecond to attosecond laser pulses 14
§1. From millisecond to nanosecond pulses 16
§2. From nanosecond to femtosecond pulses 17
§3. The attosecond regime 21
Acknowledgements 24
References 24
Chapter 2. Conical diffraction: Hamilton’s diabolical point at the heart of crystal optics 26
§1. Introduction 28
§2. Preliminaries: electromagnetism and the wave surface 31
§3. The diabolical singularity: Hamilton’s ray cone 33
§4. The bright ring of internal conical refraction 36
§5. Poggendorff’s dark ring, Raman’s bright spot 39
§6. Belsky and Khapalyuk's exact paraxial theory of conical diffraction 44
§7. Consequences of conical diffraction theory 47
§8. Experiments 54
§9. Concluding remarks 56
Acknowledgements 58
Appendix A: Paraxiality 58
Appendix B: Conical refraction and analyticity 60
References 61
Chapter 3. Historical papers on the particle concept of light 64
§1. Introduction 66
§2. Einstein’s light quanta 69
§3. Guiding fields for light quanta 78
§4. Light quanta and matter waves 83
§5. Photon wave mechanics 92
§6. Eikonal equation for the photon 104
References 106
Chapter 4. Field quantization in optics 110
§1. Introduction 112
§2. Background basics 113
§3. Coherence theory: Classical and quantum 117
§4. Semiclassical radiation theory 124
§5. Non-classical light 130
§6. Quantum noise 139
§7. Remarks 145
Acknowledgement 146
References 146
Chapter 5. The history of near-field optics 150
§1. Introduction 152
§2. The diffraction limit 155
§3. Synge and Einstein 158
§4. First developments 163
§5. Surface plasmons and surface enhanced Raman scattering 165
§6. Studies and applications of energy transfer 166
§7. First developments of near-field optical microscopy 168
§8. Theoretical near-field optics 174
§9. Near-field scattering and field enhancement 178
§10. Near-field optics and antenna theory 183
§11. Concluding remarks 187
Acknowledgements 188
References 188
Chapter 6. Light tunneling 198
§1. Introduction: Newton and contemporaries 200
§2. Classical diffraction theory 208
§3. The optomechanical analogy 214
§4. Modern developments in diffraction theory 215
§5. Exactly soluble models 218
§6. Watson’s transformation 220
§7. CAM theory of Mie scattering 222
§8. Impenetrable sphere 224
§9. Near-critical scattering 229
§10 The rainbow 232
§11. Mie resonances and ripple fluctuations 237
§12. Light tunneling in clouds 240
§13. The glory 243
§14. Further applications and conclusions 254
Acknowledgements 258
References 258
Chapter 7. The influence of Young’s interference experiment on the development of statistical optics 264
§1. Introduction 266
§2. Early history 266
§3. Towards modern theories 273
§4. Unification of the theories of polarization and coherence 277
Acknowledgement 284
References 284
Chapter 8. Planck, photon statistics, and Bose-Einstein condensation 288
§1. Introduction 290
§2. Planck's black-body radiation law 292
§3. Bose—Eiustein condensation 312
§4. The quantum theory of the laser 317
§5. Bose—Einstein condensation: laser phase-transition analogy 323
§6. Hybrid approach to condensate fluctuations 334
Acknowledgements 338
Appendix A: Mean condensate particle number and its variance for weakly interacting BEC 338
References 340
Author index for Volume 50 344
Subject index for Volume 50 356
Contents of previous volumes 360
Cumulative index—Volumes 1–50 372

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.11.2007
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Optik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• ISBN-10: 0-08-093194-4 / 0080931944
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-093194-4 / 9780080931944