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1st ed. |
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Progress in Optics ; v. 50 |
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Progress in Optics.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Print version record. |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Progress in Optics, Volume 50; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. From millisecond to attosecond laser pulses; 1. From millisecond to nanosecond pulses; 2. From nanosecond to femtosecond pulses; 3. The attosecond regime; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 2. Conical diffraction: Hamilton's diabolical point at the heart of crystal optics; 1. Introduction; 2. Preliminaries: electromagnetism and the wave surface; 3. The diabolical singularity: Hamilton's ray cone; 4. The bright ring of internal conical refraction; 5. Poggendorff's dark ring, Raman's bright spot. |
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6. Belsky and Khapalyuk's exact paraxial theory of conical diffraction7. Consequences of conical diffraction theory; 8. Experiments; 9. Concluding remarks; Acknowledgements; Appendix A: Paraxiality; Appendix B: Conical refraction and analyticity; References; Chapter 3. Historical papers on the particle concept of light; 1. Introduction; 2. Einstein's light quanta; 3. Guiding fields for light quanta; 4. Light quanta and matter waves; 5. Photon wave mechanics; 6. Eikonal equation for the photon; References; Chapter 4. Field quantization in optics; 1. Introduction. |
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2. Background basics3. Coherence theory: Classical and quantum; 4. Semiclassical radiation theory; 5. Non-classical light; 6. Quantum noise; 7. Remarks; Acknowledgement; References; Chapter 5. The history of near-field optics; 1. Introduction; 2. The diffraction limit; 3. Synge and Einstein; 4. First developments; 5. Surface plasmons and surface enhanced Raman scattering; 6. Studies and applications of energy transfer; 7. First developments of near-field optical microscopy; 8. Theoretical near-field optics; 9. Near-field scattering and field enhancement. |
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10. Near-field optics and antenna theory11. Concluding remarks; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 6. Light tunneling; 1. Introduction: Newton and contemporaries; 2. Classical diffraction theory; 3. The optomechanical analogy; 4. Modern developments in diffraction theory; 5. Exactly soluble models; 6. Watson's transformation; 7. CAM theory of Mie scattering; 8. Impenetrable sphere; 9. Near-critical scattering; 10 The rainbow; 11. Mie resonances and ripple fluctuations; 12. Light tunneling in clouds; 13. The glory; 14. Further applications and conclusions; Acknowledgements. |
| Summary |
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 Developm. |
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Optics.
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Physics.
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Physics |
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Optique.
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Physique.
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optics.
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physics.
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Optics
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Physics
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| Added Author |
Wolf, Emil.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Erez, N. Progress in Optics. Amsterdam : Elsevier Science, ©2014 9780444530233 |
| ISBN |
9780080931944 (electronic bk.) |
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0080931944 (electronic bk.) |
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0444530231 (electronic bk.) |
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9780444530233 (electronic bk.) |
| Standard No. |
UKMGB 017593403 |
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