| Preface |
| Ultrafast Solid State Lasers / U. Keller ; V. Mahajan1： |
| Gaussian Apodization and Beam Propagation |
| Control of Nonlinear Optical Processes in Multi-level Atomic Systems / A. Shchegrov ; A. Joshi ; A. Maradudin ; M. Xiao ; E. Mendez2： |
| Multiple Scattering of Light from Randomly Rough Surfaces / 3： |
| Laser Diode Interferometry / H. Benisty ; Y. Ishii ; C. Weisbuch |
| Photonic Crystals |
| Optical Realization of Quantum Teleportation / J. Gea-Banacloche ; C. Brosseu4： |
| Symmetry Properties and Polarization Descriptors for an Arbitrary Electromagnetic Wavefield / A. Dogariu ; H.J. Carmichael5： |
| Quantum Cryptography / G.T. Foster ; M. Dusek ; L.A. Orozco ; N. Lutkenhaus ; J.E. Reiner ; M. Hendrych ; P.R. Rice |
| Intensity-Field Correlations of Non-Classical Light / 6： |
| Author index / N. Cerf |
| Subject index |
| Contents of previous volumes Cumulative index - Volumes 1-46 / J. Fiurasek |
| Optical Quantum Cloning |
| Author index for Volume 49 |
| Subject index for Volume 49 |
| Contents of previous volumes Cumulative index - Volumes 1-49 |
| Multistep parametric processes in nonlinear optics / Solomon M. Saltiel ; Andrey A. Sukhorukov ; Yuri S. KivsharChapter 1： |
| Introduction |
| Single-phase-matched processes |
| Multistep phase-matched interactions |
| Third-harmonic multistep processes / 3.1： |
| Wavelength conversion / 3.2： |
| Two-color multistep cascading / 3.3： |
| Fourth-harmonic multistep cascading / 3.4： |
| OPO and OPA multistep parametric processes / 3.5： |
| Other types of multistep interactions / 3.6： |
| Measurement of the x[superscript (3)]-tensor components / 3.7： |
| Phase matching for multistep cascading |
| Uniform QPM structures / 4.1： |
| Nonuniform QPM structures / 4.2： |
| Quadratic 2D nonlinear photonic crystals / 4.3： |
| Multi-color parametric solitons |
| Third-harmonic parametric solitons / 5.1： |
| Two-color parametric solitons / 5.2： |
| Solitons due to wavelength conversion / 5.3： |
| Other types of multi-color parametric solitons / 5.4： |
| Conclusions |
| Acknowledgements |
| References |
| Modes of wave-chaotic dielectric resonators / H.E. Tureci ; H.G.L. Schwefel ; Ph. Jacquod ; A. Douglas StoneChapter 2： |
| Failure of eikonal methods for generic dielectric resonators |
| Ray dynamics for generic dielectric resonators |
| Formulation of the resonance problem |
| Reduction of the Maxwell equations |
| Scattering quantization - philosophy and methodology |
| Root-search strategy / 7： |
| Zero deformation - case of the rotationally symmetric dielectric / 7.1： |
| Deformed dielectric resonators / 7.2： |
| The Husimi-Poincare projection technique for optical dielectric resonators / 8： |
| Far-field distributions / 9： |
| Mode classification: theory and experiment / 10： |
| Conclusion / 11： |
| Numerical implementation issues / Appendix A： |
| Lens transform / Appendix B： |
| Nonlinear and quantum optics of atomic and molecular fields / Chris P. Search ; Pierre MeystreChapter 3： |
| Field quantization |
| Quantum-degenerate atomic systems |
| Bose-Einstein condensates |
| Quantum-degenerate Fermi systems |
| Collisions |
| s-wave scattering |
| Feshbach resonances |
| Photoassociation |
| Mean-field theory of Bose-Einstein condensation |
| The Gross-Pitaevskii equation |
| Quasiparticles |
| Degenerate Fermi gases |
| Normal Fermi systems / 6.1： |
| Superfluid Fermi systems / 6.2： |
| Atomic solitons |
| Four-wave mixing |
| Bosonic four-wave mixing / 8.1： |
| Fermionic four-wave mixing / 8.2： |
| Fermionic phase conjugation / 8.3： |
| Three-wave mixing |
| Nonlinear mixing of quasi-particles / 9.1： |
| Coherent molecule formation / 9.2： |
| The molecular 'micromaser' / 9.3： |
| Outlook |
| Space-variant polarization manipulation / Erez Hasman ; Gabriel Biener ; Avi Niv ; Vladimir KleinerChapter 4： |
| Formation of space-variant polarization-state manipulations |
| Space-variant polarization-state manipulation by use of sub-wavelength gratings / 2.1： |
| Space-variant vectorial fields obtained by using interference methods / 2.2： |
| Space-variant vectorial fields obtained by using liquid-crystal devices / 2.3： |
| Alternative methods / 2.4： |
| Geometrical phase in space-variant polarization-state manipulation |
| Continuous Pancharatnam-Berry-phase optical elements |
| Quantized Pancharatnam-Berry-phase diffractive optics |
| Polarization Talbot self-imaging |
| Applications of space-variant polarization manipulation |
| Polarization measurements |
| Spatial polarization scrambling |
| Polarization encryption and polarization encoding |
| Space-variant polarization-dependent emissivity / 4.4： |
| Concluding remarks |
| Optical vortices and vortex solitons / Anton S. Desyatnikov ; Lluis TornerChapter 5： |
| Self-trapped vortices in Kerr-type media |
| Vortices in defocusing nonlinear media |
| Ring-like beams in focusing nonlinear media |
| Azimuthal modulational instability |
| Composite spatial solitons with phase dislocations |
| Soliton-induced waveguides |
| Higher-order vector solitons |
| Multi-component vortex solitons |
| Partially coherent vortices |
| Multi-color vortex solitons |
| Model |
| Frequency doubling with vortex beams |
| Families of the vortex solitons |
| Spontaneous break-up: azimuthal instability |
| Induced break-up: soliton algebra / 4.5： |
| Dark multi-color vortex solitons / 4.6： |
| Stabilization of vortex solitons |
| Cubic-quintic nonlinearity |
| Quadratic-cubic nonlinearity |
| Spatiotemporal spinning solitons |
| Other optical beams carrying angular momentum |
| Soliton spiraling |
| Optical necklace beams |
| Soliton clusters / 6.3： |
| Discrete vortices in two-dimensional lattices |
| Links to vortices in other fields |
| Vortices in dissipative optical systems |
| Vortices in matter waves |
| Optical vortices and quantum information |
| Phase imaging and refractive index tomography for X-rays and visible rays / Koichi IwataChapter 6： |
| Properties of X-ray and visible ray |
| Absorption coefficient and refractive index |
| Deviation of ray direction |
| Formation of intensity and phase images |
| Intensity image |
| Phase image |
| Phase imaging methods |
| Shadowgraphy |
| Schlieren method |
| Other phase imaging methods |
| Reference type interferometers |
| Visible ray region |
| X-ray region |
| Shearing type interferometers |
| Refractive index tomography |
| Discussion on interferometers and refractive index tomography |
| Comparison between the interferometers |
| Consideration for interferometers with a conventional X-ray source |
| Diffraction tomography |
| Acknowledgement |
| Author index for Volume 47 |
| Subject index for Volume 47 |
| Contents of previous volumes |
| Cumulative index - Volumes 1-47 |
| Propagation-Invariant Optical Fields / J.Turunen ; A.T. Friberg |
| Theoretical tools for quantum optics in structured media / D. Mogilevtsev ; S. Kilin |
| Polarization and Coherence Optics: Historical Perspective, Status, and Future Directions / C. Brosseau |
| Optical Quantum Computation / T.C. Ralph ; G.J. Pryde |
| Science and Engineering of Photonic Crystals / K. Sakoda ; J.W. Haus |
| The Mathematical Theory of Laser Beam-Splitting Gratings / L.A. Romero ; F.M. Dickey |
| The Resolution Challenge in 3D Optical Microscopy / M. Martínez-Corral ; G. Saavedra |
| Transformation Optics and the Geometry of Light / U. Leonhardt ; Th.G. Philbin |
| Photorefractive Solitons and their Underlying Nonlocal Physics / E. DelRe ; B. Crosignani ; P. Di Porto |
| Stimulated Scattering Effects of Intense Coherent Light / G.S. He |
| Singular Optics: Optical Vortices and Polarization Singularities / M.R. Dennis ; Kevin O'Holleran ; M.J. Padgett |
| Quantum Feedforward Control of Light / U.L. Andersen ; R. Filip |
| Author index for Volume 53 |
| Subject index for Volume 53 |
| Cumulative index - Volumes 1-53 |
| Optical Pulse Propagation in Biological Media: Theory and Numerical Methods / Malin Premaratne |
| Light Scattering |
| Classification of Scattering |
| Quantitative Modeling |
| Photon Transport Equation |
| Radiance |
| Radiance Transport Equation |
| Scattering Phase Function |
| Numerical Methods |
| Two-Flux and Multi-Flux Methods |
| Spectral Methods |
| Finite Volume Method |
| Method of Lines |
| Method of Characteristics |
| Time Shift and Superposition Method |
| Concluding Remarks |
| Manipulating Light States by Single-Photon Addition and Subtraction / Marco Bellini ; Alessandro Zavatta |
| Single-Photon Operators for Manipulating Quantum Information |
| Continuous-Variable Quantum State Engineering |
| Unified Treatment of Experimental Single-Photon Addition and Subtraction Implementations |
| Single-Photon Addition |
| Single-Photon-Added Coherent States |
| Single-Photon-Added Thermal States |
| Tests of Nonclassicality |
| Single-Photon Subtraction |
| Photon Subtraction from Arbitrary Light States |
| De-Gaussification of Squeezed States and Generation of Schrödinger's Kittens |
| Increasing Entanglement and Nonlocality by Single-Photon Subtraction |
| Sequences and Superpositions of Single-Photon Operators |
| Sequences of Creation and Annihilation Operators |
| Superpositions of Quantum Operators |
| Acknowledgments |
| Quantum Tomography / A： |
| Vacuum-Induced Processes in Multilevel Atoms / M. Kiffner ; M. Macovei ; J. Evers ; C. H. Keitel |
| Mathematical Model |
| Description of the System |
| General Reservoir Theory |
| Derivation of the Master Equation |
| Master Equation for Radiatively Coupled Multilevel Systems |
| Single-Particle Processes |
| Single-Particle Spontaneous Decay |
| Spontaneous Decay-Induced Coherences |
| Collective Processes |
| Pair of Dipole-Dipole Interacting Two-Level Atoms |
| Experimental Verification of the Dipole-Dipole Interaction |
| Dipole-Dipole Interaction beyond the Two-Level Approximation |
| Impact of the Dipole-Dipole Interaction |
| Multi-Particle Quantum Dynamics |
| Adaptive Lens / Guoqiang Li |
| Adaptive Liquid Crystal Lens |
| Liquid Crystal Cell |
| Liquid Crystal Lens |
| Refractive Liquid Crystal Lens Using Discrete Electrodes |
| Diffractive Liquid Crystal Lens Using Discrete Electrodes |
| Liquid Crystal Lens Based on Hole-Patterned Electrode / 2.5： |
| Liquid Crystal Lens Formed by a Glass/Polymer Lens/Shell and Flat LC Layer(s) / 2.6： |
| Modal Liquid Crystal Lens Based on Resistive Electrode / 2.7： |
| Lens Using Polymer/Liquid Crystal Composites / 2.8： |
| Microlens with Hybrid Alignment / 2.9： |
| Polarization-Independent LC Lens / 2.10： |
| Adaptive Liquid Lens |
| Liquid Lenses Based on Fluid-Membrane Interaction |
| Liquid Lenses Based on Electrowetting Effect |
| Liquid Microlenses Based on Dielectrophoretic Effect |
| Liquid Microlenses Based on Hydrogel and Thermal Effect |
| Examples of Applications of the Adaptive Lenses |
| Correction of Presbyopia |
| Zoom Lens, Optical Tweezer, and Biomedical Imaging |
| Aberration Correction |
| The Structure of Partially Coherent Fields / G. Gbur ; T.D. Visser |
| The Space-Frequency Representation |
| Partially Coherent Fields in Young's Experiment |
| The Evolution of Partially Coherent Beams |
| Focusing of Partially Coherent Wave Fields |
| Scattering of Partially Coherent Wave Fields by Random and Deterministic Media |
| Phase Singularities of Coherence Functions |
| The Coherent Mode Representation |
| Numerical Simulation of Partially Coherent Fields |
| Direct Applications of Coherence Theory |
| Author Index of Volume 55 |
| Subject Index of Volume 55 |
| Contents of Previous Volumes |
| Cumulative Index - Volumes 1-55 |
| Optical Non-Diffracting Beams and Their Applications / S. Chavez-Cerda |
| Low-dimensional Silicon Structures for use in Photonic Circuits / Andrew Knights ; T. Roschuk |
| Progresses in 3D Multi-perspective display by integral imaging / Bahram Javidi |
| Space-time analogy: a renewed tool for ultrafast pulse processing / Pedro Andres ; Jesús Lancis ; Victor Torres |
| Polarization and Spectral Properties of Biphotons / Maria Chekhova |
| The Microscope in a Computer: Image Synthesis from Three-Dimensional Full-Vector Solutions of Maxwell's Equations at the Nanometer Scale / Ilker R. Capoglu ; Jeremy D. Rogers ; Allen Taove ; Vadim Backman |
| Microstructures and Nanostructures in Nature / Dora Kroisova |
| Quantitative Phase Imaging / Mustafa Mir ; Basanta Bhaduri ; Ruoyu Zhu ; Gabriel Popescu |
| Tight Focusing of Light Beams: Effect of Polarization, Phase and Coherence / Ziyang Chen ; Limin Hua ; Jixiong Pu |
| Direct and Inverse Problems in the Theory of Light Scattering / Daomu Zhao ; Tao Wan |
| Coherent Backscattering and Anderson Localization of Light Christ of M. Aegerter and Georg Maret |
| Instances of Enhanced Backscattering / 1.1： |
| Coherent Backscattering / 1.2： |
| Theoretical Predictions / 1.3： |
| Experiments on Coherent Backscattering |
| Colloidal Suspensions and Turbid Powders |
| The Influence of a Magnetic Field |
| Cold Atoms |
| Other Types of Waves |
| The Transition to Strong Localization |
| Low-dimensional Systems |
| Static Measurements |
| Time-resolved Measurements |
| Conclusions and Outlook |
| Soliton Shape and Mobility Control in Optical Lattices Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Victor A. Vysloukh and Lluis Torner |
| Nonlinear Materials |
| Diffraction Control in Optical Lattices |
| Bloch Waves |
| One-and Two-dimensional Waveguide Arrays |
| AM and FM Transversely Modulated Lattices and Arrays |
| Longitudinally Modulated Lattices and Waveguide Arrays |
| Optically-induced Lattices |
| Optical Lattices Induced by Interference Patterns |
| Nondiffracting Linear Beams |
| Mathematical Models of Wave Propagation |
| One-dimensional Lattice Solitons |
| Fundamental Solitons |
| Beam Shaping and Mobility Control |
| Multipole Solitons and Solition Trains |
| Gap Solitons |
| Vector Solitons / 5.5： |
| Soliton Steering in Dynamical Lattices / 5.6： |
| Lattice Solitons in Nonlocal Nonlinear Media / 5.7： |
| Two-dimensional Lattice Solitons |
| Multipole Solitons |
| Vortex Solitons / 6.4： |
| Topological Soliton Dragging / 6.6： |
| Solitons in Bessel Lattices |
| Rotary and Vortex Solitons in Radially Symmetric Bessel Lattices |
| Multipole and Vortex Solitons in Azimuthally Modulated Bessel Lattices |
| Soliton Wires and Networks / 7.3： |
| Mathieu and Parabolic Optical Lattices / 7.4： |
| Three-dimensional Lattice Solitons |
| Nonlinear Lattices and Soliton Arrays |
| Soliton Arrays and Pixels |
| Nonlinear Periodic Lattices |
| Defect Modes and Random Lattices |
| Defect Modes in Waveguide Arrays and Optically-induced Lattices / 10.1： |
| Anderson Localization / 10.2： |
| Soliton Percolation / 10.3： |
| Signal and Quantum Noise in Optical Communications and Cryptography Philippe Gallion, Francisco Mendieta and Shifeng Jiang |
| Quantum and Thermal Noises |
| Limit of the Semi-classical Approach for Quantum Noise |
| New Trends in Optical Communication Engineering |
| Chapter Objective and Organization / 1.4： |
| Basic Concepts of Quantum Optics |
| Quantum Description of Optical Fields |
| Quantum States of Optical Fields |
| Quantum Probability Distributions |
| Engineering Description of Quantum Noise |
| Non-commutating Quadrature Measurements and Quantum State Distinguishability |
| Non Commutating Quadrature Measurements |
| Quantum Detection |
| Symmetrical Coherent States |
| Open Loop Quantum Receivers |
| Feedback Quantum Receivers |
| Optical Amplification |
| Minimum Output Additive Noise |
| Attenuation and Amplification Noises |
| Quantum Langevin Approach |
| Equivalent Lumped Amplifier Noise Factor |
| Pre-amplified Optical System Applications |
| Technical Noise and Impairment in Optical Amplification |
| Linear and Phase-Sensitive Amplification / 4.7： |
| Optical Amplification Sensitivity / 4.8： |
| Single Quadrature Homodyne Detection |
| Quantum Theory of Homodyne Detection |
| Second Order Momentum and Signal to Noise Ratio |
| Comparison with the Classical Approach Result |
| Coherent Optical System Applications |
| Application to Cryptography |
| Technical Noise and Impairment in Homodyne Detection |
| In-phase and Quadrature Measurements |
| Phase Estimation with Classical Signals |
| Phase Estimation with Quantum Signals |
| Heterodyne Detection |
| I-Q Measurements |
| Suppressed Carrier Phase Estimation |
| In-phase and Quadrature Measurements Applications |
| Appendix |
| General Quantum Field Input-Output Relations / A.1： |
| Abbreviation Index / A.2： |
| Notation Index / A.3： |
| Invisibility Cloaking by Coordinate Transformation Min Yan, Wei Yan and Min Qiu |
| Coordinate Transformation in Electromagnetism |
| Principle and Construction of Invisibility Cloaks |
| Arbitrarily-shaped Invisibility Cloaks |
| Outer Boundary of Cloak |
| Inner Boundary of Cloak |
| Cylindrical Invisibility Cloak |
| Approximate Ideal Cylindrical Cloak |
| Material Simplification |
| Spherical Invisibility Cloak |
| Other Related Works and Some Practical Issues |
| Acknowledgment |
| Author Index for Volume 52 |
| Subject Index for Volume 52 |
| Cumulative Index - Volumes 1-52 |
| Negative refractive index metamaterials in optics / Natalia M. Litchinitser ; Ildar R. Gabitov ; Andrei I. Maimistov ; Vladimir M. Shalaev |
| Ambidextrous light in a left-handed world |
| Negative index: Brief history |
| Optical negative index metamaterials: State of the art |
| Plasmonic NIMs |
| Loss management |
| Alternative approaches to negative refraction |
| Negative refraction and superlens |
| Negative refraction |
| Superlens |
| Enhanced nonlinearity and its origin in metamaterials |
| Optical bistability and solitons |
| Generalized nonlinear Schrodinger equation |
| Solitons in plasmonic nanostructures |
| Gap solitons |
| Optical bistability |
| Ultra-narrow spatial solitons |
| "Backward" phase-matching conditions: Implications for nonlinear optics |
| Second-harmonic generation |
| Optical parametric amplification |
| Surface polaritons, waveguides and resonators |
| Linear surface polaritons |
| Nonlinear surface polaritons |
| NIM slab as a linear waveguide |
| Linear waveguide in nonlinear surroundings |
| Nano-resonators / 7.5： |
| New frontiers: Metamaterials for cloaking |
| Summary |
| Polarization techniques for surface nonlinear optics / Martti Kauranen ; Stefano Cattaneo |
| Polarization effects in the nonlinear response of surfaces and thin films |
| Functional form of the measured signals |
| Approximation of unity refractive indices |
| Polarization arrangements for the characterization of nonlinear samples |
| Low-symmetry samples |
| Experimental considerations |
| Applications of polarization techniques |
| Chirality and circular-difference response |
| Higher-multipole contributions to the surface nonlinearity of isotropic materials |
| Complete theoretical model including linear optics |
| Geometry and notational conventions |
| Second-harmonic field exiting from a thick sample |
| Limit of zero thickness |
| Effect on the susceptibility components |
| Conclusions and outlook |
| Electromagnetic fields in linear bianisotropic mediums / Tom G. Mackay ; Akhlesh Lakhtakia |
| The Maxwell postulates and constitutive relations |
| Maxwell postulates |
| Constitutive relations |
| The frequency domain |
| 6-vector/6 x 6 dyadic notation |
| Form invariances |
| Constitutive dyadics |
| Linear mediums |
| Isotropy |
| Anisotropy |
| Bianisotropy |
| Nonhomogeneous mediums |
| Plane-wave propagation |
| Uniform and non-uniform plane waves |
| Eigenanalysis |
| Isotropic scenarios |
| Anisotropic scenarios |
| Bianisotropic scenarios |
| Plane waves with negative phase velocity |
| Dyadic Green functions |
| Definition and properties |
| Closed-form representations |
| Eigenfunction representations |
| Depolarization dyadics |
| Homogenization |
| Constituent mediums |
| Maxwell Garnett formalism |
| Bruggeman formalism |
| Strong-property-fluctuation theory |
| Anisotropy and bianisotropy via homogenization |
| Closing remarks |
| Ultrafast optical pulses / Clifford R. Pollock |
| Overview of ultrashort optical pulses |
| Historic developments in short optical pulse development |
| Outline of chapter |
| Fundamental properties of optical pulses |
| Amplitudes, envelopes, and intensity |
| Phase, frequency, and group delay |
| Time-bandwidth product |
| The "zero area" pulse |
| Ultrashort-pulse generation |
| Spectral properties of ultrafast laser materials |
| Modelocking issues |
| Active and passive modulation |
| Modelocking schemes |
| Ultrafast-pulse characterization |
| Autocorrelation |
| Frequency-resolved optical gating (FROG) |
| Ultrafast Ti:sapphire lasers and amplifiers |
| Dispersion control |
| Ultrashort Ti:sapphire lasers |
| Ti:sapphire amplifiers |
| Attosecond pulses |
| Quantum imaging / Alessandra Gatti ; Enrico Brambilla ; Luigi Lugiato |
| Introduction to quantum imaging |
| Optical parametric down-conversion of type I |
| Spatially multimode versus single-mode squeezing |
| Spatial structure of squeezed vacuum states in the degenerate optical parametric oscillator below threshold |
| Quantum images in the OPO above and below threshold |
| The interference of signal and idler waves in type I PDC / 1.5： |
| Quantum spatial intensity correlations in optical parametric down-conversion |
| Degenerate OPO below threshold, spatial quantum correlation and entanglement |
| Multimode-model for single-pass parametric down-conversion |
| Single-pass PDC of type I. Near-field/far-field duality |
| Single-pass PDC of type II. Simultaneous near-field and far-field spatial correlation |
| Detection of sub-shot-noise spatial correlation in the high gain regime of type II PDC. Spatial analogue of photon antibunching |
| Detection of weak amplitude objects beyond the standard quantum limit |
| Multimode polarization entanglement in high-gain PDC |
| Ghost imaging |
| General theory of ghost imaging with entangled beams |
| Two paradigmatic imaging schemes |
| Spatial average in ghost diffraction: Increase of spatial bandwidth and of speed in retrieval. Homodyne detection scheme |
| Debate: Is quantum entanglement really necessary for ghost imaging? |
| Ghost imaging by splitted thermal-like beams: Theory |
| Resolution aspects, correlation aspects, visibility aspects |
| Ghost imaging with splitted thermal beams: Experiment |
| Complementarity between "thermal" ghost imaging and the classic Hanbury-Brown-Twiss (HBT) correlation technique, with respect to spatial coherence / 3.8： |
| Image amplification by parametric down-conversion |
| Twin (quantum entangled) images |
| Noiseless amplification of images |
| Theory of noiseless amplification of optical images |
| Noiseless amplification of optical images: Experiments in the pumped regime |
| Noiseless amplification of optical images: Experiment in the cw regime. Experimental observation of twin images |
| The quantum laser pointer |
| 1D experiment |
| 2D quantum laser pointer |
| Miscellaneous |
| Object reconstruction |
| Entangled two-photon microscopy |
| Quantum-optical coherence tomography |
| Quantum ellipsometry |
| Transverse distribution of quantum fluctuations in free-space spatial solitons |
| Quantum fluctuations in cavity solitons |
| Quantum holographic teleportation and dense coding of optical images / 6.7： |
| Quantum-optical lithography / 6.8： |
| Assessment of optical systems by means of point-spread functions / Joseph J.M. Braat ; Sven van Haver ; Augustus J.E.M. Janssen ; Peter Dirksen |
| The optical point-spread function |
| Quality assessment by inverse problem solving |
| Theory of point-spread function formation |
| Field representations and the diffraction integral |
| The Debye integral for focused fields |
| The Rayleigh-I integral for focused fields |
| Comparison of the various diffraction integrals |
| The amplitude of the point-spread function produced by an optical system |
| Analytic expressions for the point-spread function in the focal region (scalar case) |
| Analytic expressions for the point-spread function in the vector diffraction case |
| The point-spread function in a stratified medium |
| Energy density and power flow in the focal region |
| Expression for the electric energy density |
| Expression for the Poynting vector |
| Quality assessment by inverse problem solution |
| Intensity measurements and phase retrieval |
| The optical inverse problem for finite-aperture imaging systems |
| Solving the optical inverse problem using phase diversity |
| Quality assessment using the Extended Nijboer-Zernike diffraction theory |
| Scalar retrieval process using the Extended Nijboer-Zernike theory |
| Pupil function retrieval for high-NA imaging systems |
| Retrieval examples for high-NA systems |
| Conclusion and outlook |
| Derivation of Weyl's plane wave expansion of a spherical wave |
| The Debye integral in the presence of aberrations |
| Series expansion of the diffraction integral at large defocus / Appendix C： |
| Series expansion for the diffraction integral V[superscript m subscript n,j](r, f) / Appendix D： |
| Expansion using the functions V[superscript m subscript n] (r, f) / D.1： |
| Expansion using the functions T[superscript m subscript n] (r, f) / D.2： |
| The predictor-corrector procedure / Appendix E： |
| Zernike coefficients for circularly symmetric polarization states / Appendix F： |
| The discrete Wigner function / Gunnar Bjork ; Andrei B. Klimov ; Luis L. Sanchez-SotoChapter 7： |
| Continuous Wigner function |
| Discrete finite space and finite fields |
| The generalized Pauli group |
| Prime-dimensional spaces |
| Power-of-a-prime-dimensional spaces |
| Mutually unbiased bases |
| Wigner function in prime-dimensional spaces |
| Wigner function in composite-dimensional spaces |
| Wigner function for p[superscript N]-dimensional space |
| Reconstruction of the density operator from the discrete Wigner function |
| Lines and rays |
| Marginal probability density and the density operator |
| Tomographic reconstruction |
| Rotation operators |
| The phase of the displacement operator |
| Applications |
| Discussion and outlook |
| Author index for Volume 51 |
| Subject index for volume 51 |
| Cumulative index - Volumes 1-51 |
| From millisecond to attosecond laser pulses / N. Bloembergen |
| From millisecond to nanosecond pulses |
| From nanosecond to femtosecond pulses |
| The attosecond regime |
| Conical diffraction: Hamilton's diabolical point at the heart of crystal optics / M.V. Berry ; M.R. Jeffrey |
| Preliminaries: electromagnetism and the wave surface |
| The diabolical singularity: Hamilton's ray cone |
| The bright ring of internal conical refraction |
| Poggendorff's dark ring, Raman's bright spot |
| Belsky and Khapalyuk's exact paraxial theory of conical diffraction |
| Consequences of conical diffraction theory |
| Experiments |
| Paraxiality |
| Conical refraction and analyticity |
| Historical papers on the particle concept of light / Ole Keller |
| Einstein's light quanta |
| Planck's radiation law |
| The radiation laws of Rayleigh and Wien |
| Entropy of radiation |
| Hypothesis of light quanta |
| A glimpse of the wave-particle duality |
| Guiding fields for light quanta |
| Slater's virtual radiation field |
| The Bohr-Kramers-Slater theory: virtual fields without light quanta |
| Photons - a new kind of atoms? |
| Light quanta and matter waves |
| De Broglie's phase wave |
| De Broglie's world vector relation, J[micro] = hO[micro] |
| Wave equation for light corpuscles? |
| Photon wave mechanics |
| The light quantum theory of Landau and Peierls |
| Oppenheimer's note on light quanta |
| Eikonal equation for the photon |
| Field quantization in optics / Peter W. Milonni |
| Background basics |
| Coherence theory: Classical and quantum |
| Semiclassical radiation theory |
| Non-classical light |
| Quantum noise |
| Remarks |
| The history of near-field optics / Lukas Novotny |
| The diffraction limit |
| Synge and Einstein |
| First developments |
| Surface plasmons and surface enhanced Raman scattering |
| Studies and applications of energy transfer |
| First developments of near-field optical microscopy |
| Theoretical near-field optics |
| Near-field scattering and field enhancement |
| Near-field optics and antenna theory |
| Light tunneling / H.M. Nussenzveig |
| Introduction: Newton and contemporaries |
| Classical diffraction theory |
| The optomechanical analogy |
| Modern developments in diffraction theory |
| The geometrical theory of diffraction |
| Fock's theory of diffraction |
| Exactly soluble models |
| Exact solutions |
| Mie scattering |
| The localization principle |
| Watson's transformation |
| CAM theory of Mie scattering |
| The Poisson sum formula |
| Basic tools of CAM theory |
| Impenetrable sphere |
| Structure of the wave function |
| Diffraction as tunneling |
| Near-critical scattering |
| The rainbow |
| The Debye expansion |
| The primary rainbow |
| Mie resonances and ripple fluctuations |
| Mie resonances / 11.1： |
| Ripple fluctuations / 11.2： |
| Light tunneling in clouds / 12： |
| The glory / 13： |
| Observations and early theories / 13.1： |
| Van De Hulst's theory / 13.2： |
| CAM theory: background contributions / 13.3： |
| CAM theory: Mie resonance contributions / 13.4： |
| Further applications and conclusions / 14： |
| Further applications / 14.1： |
| The influence of Young's interference experiment on the development of statistical optics / Emil Wolf14.2： |
| Early history |
| Towards modern theories |
| Unification of the theories of polarization and coherence |
| Planck, photon statistics, and Bose-Einstein condensation / Daniel M. Greenberger ; Noam Erez ; Marlan O. Scully ; Anatoly A. Svidzinsky ; M. Suhail ZubairyChapter 8： |
| Planck's black-body radiation law |
| Some ironical historical details concerning Planck |
| Thermodynamic background leading to the radiation law |
| Planck's introduction of the quantum of action |
| Planck's derivation of the blackbody radiation law |
| Some comments on the Planck derivation |
| Einstein's fluctuation argument |
| Einstein's A and B coefficients |
| Bose-Einstein condensation |
| Average condensate particle number |
| Fluctuations in the number of particles in the condensate |
| The quantum theory of the laser |
| Bose-Einstein condensation: laser phase-transition analogy |
| Condensate master equation |
| Low-temperature approximation |
| Quasithermal approximation for non-condensate occupations |
| Squeezing, noise reduction and BEC fluctuations |
| Hybrid approach to condensate fluctuations |
| Mean condensate particle number and its variance for weakly interacting BEC |
| Author index for Volume 50 |
| Subject index for Volume 50 |
| Cumulative index - Volumes 1-50 |
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