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Progress in Optics
1st Edition, Volume 56 - November 23, 2011
Editor: Emil Wolf
Language: English
Hardback ISBN:9780444538864
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eBook ISBN:9780444543035
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In the 50 years 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 that have appear…Read more
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In the 50 years 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 that have appeared up to now contain more than 300 review articles by distinguished research workers, which have become permanent records for many important developments, helping optical scientists and optical engineers stay abreast of their fields.
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Preface
1. Space-Time Analogies in Optics
1. Introduction
2. Ultrashort Light Pulse Propagation in Dispersive Homogeneous Media
3. First-Order Approximation: Space-Time Analogy
4. Elements and their Implementations
5. Coherent Ultra-High-Speed Optical Systems and their Applications
6. Temporal Optics in the Noncoherent Regime
7. Temporal Optics in the Two-Photon Regime
8. Conclusions Acknowledgments
2. Unconventional Polarization States
1. Introduction
2. Superposition Principles and Interferometric Methods
3. Direct Methods
4. Generalized Beam-Like Polarization States
5. Nonparaxial Propagation and Focusing
6. Surfaces, Edges, and Particles
7. Unconventional Polarization States in Nonlinear Optics
8. Partially Coherent Polarization Vortices
9. Summary and Acknowledgments
3. Quantum Scissors – Finite-Dimensional States Engineering
1. Introduction
2. Finite-Dimensional Quantum States
3. Linear Quantum Scissors
4. Nonlinear Quantum Scissors Summary
4. Polarization and Spectral Properties of Biphotons
1. Introduction
2. Biphotons and How to Produce Them
3. Measurements on Biphotons
4. Spectral Properties
5. Polarization Properties
6. Beyond Biphotons
7. Conclusion Acknowledgments
5. Engineering Nonlinear Optic Sources of Photonic Entanglement
1. Introduction
2. Quantum Nonlinear Optics
3. Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion
4. Four-Wave Mixing
5. Quantum Technologies
6. Conclusions Acknowledgements Author Index for Volume 56 Subject Index for Volume 56 Contents of Previous Volumes Cumulative Index – Volumes 1–56
No. of pages: 404
Language: English
Edition: 1
Volume: 56
Published: November 23, 2011
Imprint: Elsevier Science
Hardback ISBN: 9780444538864
eBook ISBN: 9780444543035
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Emil Wolf
Professor Wolf works at the University of Rochester, NY, USA