Progress in Optics
- 1st Edition, Volume 67 - April 1, 2022
- Editor: Taco Visser
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 8 9 0 5 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 8 9 0 6 - 0
Progress in Optics, Volume 67, highlights new advances, with this updated volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of timely topics in the field. Each chapter is writte… Read more
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Request a sales quoteProgress in Optics, Volume 67, highlights new advances, with this updated volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of timely topics in the field. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors. The book contains five reviews of the latest developments in optics.
- Covers medical imaging, physical optics, integrated optics, and quantum optics
- Includes contributions from leading authorities in the field of optics
- Presents timely, state-of-the-art reviews on advances in optics
Researchers, professors, postgraduate students, Academic and corporate libraries in the field of optics
- Cover image
- Table of Contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter One: Freeform optics design
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Design methods
- 3: Imaging applications
- 4: Nonimaging applications
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter Two: Attosecond pulses and laser-driven electron dynamics
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: High-order harmonic generation
- 3: Isolation of attosecond pulses
- 4: Attosecond dynamics in atoms and molecules
- 5: Attosecond physics in condensed matter
- 6: Conclusions and outlook
- References
- Chapter Three: Quantum polarimetry
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Classical polarization
- 3: Quantum polarization
- 4: Quantum polarimetry from the perspective of quantum estimation theory
- 5: Evaluating classical intuitions in light of quantum polarimetry
- 6: Conclusions
- References
- Chapter Four: Young's interference experiment: Past, present, and future
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Life and work of Thomas Young
- 3: Young's interference experiment
- 4: Weak light
- 5: The wave-particle duality for massive particles
- 6: Optical coherence
- 7: Surface plasmons
- 8: Entanglement and duality
- 9: Multi-order interference and exotic paths
- 10: Singular optics
- 11: Conclusions
- References
- Author index
- Subject Index
- Cumulative index – volumes 1–67
- No. of pages: 406
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 67
- Published: April 1, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323989053
- eBook ISBN: 9780323989060
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Taco Visser
Taco D. Visser is a Professor of Physics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He has published more than one hundred papers on various topics in optics, such as scattering, diffraction, waveguides, coherence theory, singular optics and surface plasmon polaritions. Next to his theoretical work he is also actively engaged in experiments in nano-optics.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsRead Progress in Optics on ScienceDirect