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Progress in Optics
1st Edition, Volume 59 - May 2, 2014
Editor: Emil Wolf
Language: English
Hardback ISBN:9780444633798
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eBook ISBN:9780128004425
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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 ap…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.
Comprehensive, in-depth reviews
Edited by the leading authority in the field
Researchers, professors, (post) graduate students, Academic and corporate libraries in the field of optics
Preface
Chapter 1. Active Optical Metamaterials
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Nanoplasmonic Metamaterials
3 Optical Gain Media in Nanoplasmonics
4 Loss Compensation in a Nanoplasmonic Negative Refractive Index Metamaterial
5 Nonlinear Dynamics of Bright and Dark Lasing States
6 Conclusion and Outlook
Acknowledgments
References
Chapter 2. Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion in Nonlinear Layered Structures
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Spatial Vector Quantum Model of Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion
3 Model of Surface Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion
4 Quantities Characterizing an Emitted Photon Pair
5 Design of an Efficient Nonlinear Layered Structure
6 Intensity Profiles and Correlations in the Transverse Plane
7 Intensity Spectra and Temporal Correlations
8 Ultra-Fast Pumping of Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion
9 Surface Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion
10 Photon Pairs Anti-Symmetric in Signal and Idler Frequencies—Anti-Bunching of Photons