Progress in Optics (eBook)

Emil Wolf (Herausgeber)

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2009 | 1. Auflage
552 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-096417-1 (ISBN)

Infos

In the forty-eight 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 more than 300 review articles by distinguished research workers, which have become permanent records for many important developments.

• 3D optical microscopy
• Transformation optics and geometry of light
• Photorefractive solitons
• Stimulated scattering effects
• Optical vortices and polarization singularities
• Quantum feedforward control of light

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Progress in Optics 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 8
Preface 6
Chapter 1. The Resolution Challenge in 3D Optical Microscopy 14
1. Introduction 14
2. Basic Theory for Microscope Imaging 16
3. The High-Numerical-Aperture Approach 31
4. Optical-Sectioning Microscopy 46
5. Conclusions 76
Acknowledgments 77
References 78
Chapter 2. Transformation Optics and the Geometry of Light 82
1. Introduction 83
2. Fermat's Principle 87
3. Arbitrary Coordinates 93
4. Maxwell's Equations 119
5. Transformation Media 130
6. Conclusions 155
Acknowledgments 157
Appendix A 158
References 161
Chapter 3. Photorefractive Solitons and Their Underlying Nonlocal Physics 166
1. Introduction 167
2. Observing a Photorefractive Soliton 169
3. Charge Migration and Intrinsic Spatial and Temporal Scales 174
4. Nonlinear Beam Propagation 178
5. Intrinsic Scales and a Condition for a Local Kerr-Like Soliton 180
6. Observable Effects of Spatial Nonlocality in 1D Solitons 190
7. Nonlocality and Anisotropy in 2D Solitons 200
8. Conclusions and Perspective 209
References 209
Chapter 4. Stimulated Scattering Effects of Intense Coherent Light 214
1. Historical Remark of Stimulated Scattering Studies 215
2. Scope and Organization of This Review 216
3. Stimulated Raman Scattering 217
4. Stimulated Brillouin Scattering 241
5. Stimulated Rayleigh-Wing Scattering and Stimulated Thermal Rayleigh Scattering 256
6. Stimulated Kerr Scattering 262
7. Stimulated Rayleigh–Bragg Scattering 276
8. Phase-Conjugation Property of Backward-Stimulated Scattering 282
Acknowledgments 289
References 289
Chapter 5. Singular Optics: Optical Vortices and Polarization Singularities 306
1. Introduction 307
2. Historical Review of Vortices in Optics 310
3. Creating an Optical Vortex 320
4. The Structure of Optical Phase Singularities 329
5. Vortices in Random Wavefields 340
6. Optical Vortices and Angular Momentum 345
7. Polarization Singularities 353
8. Conclusions 363
Acknowledgments 365
References 365
Chapter 6. Quantum Feed-Forward Control of Light 378
1. Introduction 378
2. Theoretical Feed-Forward Tools 381
3. Experimental Feed-Forward Tools 391
4. Applications of Feed-Forward 402
5. Conclusions 423
Acknowledgments 424
References 424
Author Index for Volume 53 428
Subject Index for Volume 53 440
Contents of Previous Volumes 444
Cumulative Index-Volume 1-53 456

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.6.2009
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Optik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• ISBN-10: 0-08-096417-6 / 0080964176
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-096417-1 / 9780080964171