Progress in Optics
- 1st Edition, Volume 68 - April 6, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editor: Taco Visser
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 9 3 8 4 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 9 3 8 5 - 9
Progress in Optics, Volume 68 highlights new advances in the field of optics, with this updated volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of timely topics in the field.… Read more
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Request a sales quoteProgress in Optics, Volume 68 highlights new advances in the field of optics, with this updated volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of timely topics in the field. Chapters in this release include Nonlinear Optical Polarimetry with application in biomicroscopy, Single-photon Sources, Introduction to Tensor Networks and Matrix Product States with Applications in Cavity and Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics, Rotated frames, Phase retrieval, and more. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors who review 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
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Series Page
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter One: Photon sources and their applications in quantum science and technologies
- Abstract
- 1: Properties of single photons
- 2: Spontaneous parametric downconversion
- 3: Four-wave mixing
- 4: Quantum dot sources
- 5: Single-photon emitters in color centers
- 6: Applications
- 7: Conclusion and outlook
- References
- Chapter Two: Fock-state master equations for open quantum optical systems
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Model Hamiltonian
- 3: Dissipative time evolution
- 4: Single-photon wavepackets
- 5: Two-photon wavepackets
- 6: Three-photon wavepackets
- 7: Narrow-bandwidth case and extension to N-photon FSME
- 8: Example: Two-level quantum emitter
- 9: Summary and discussion
- Appendix: Single-photon case trace terms
- References
- Chapter Three: Phase recovery with intensity and polarization correlation
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Phase in optics
- 3: Optics with random light
- 4: Phase recovery with polarization correlation
- 5: Holography with unpolarized light
- 6: Conclusions
- References
- Chapter Four: Spatially structured light fields and their propagation manipulation
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Spatially structured light fields
- 3: Propagation manipulation of scaler SSLFs
- 4: Propagation manipulation of vector SSLFs
- 5: Summary
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter Five: Incoherent interference
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Incoherent holography
- 3: Second-order interference (two-photon interference)
- 4: First-order incoherent interference
- 5: Nonlocal double-slit interference
- 6: Summary
- Acknowledgment
- References
- Chapter Six: Fabry–Perot cavities made easy
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Normalized fields and their boundary conditions in the FP cavity
- 3: The Maxwell–Bloch equations for a Fabry–Perot cavity
- 4: The traveling wave formalism
- 5: The set of modal equations
- 6: The single-mode stationary solutions
- 7: The linearized equations
- 8: The resonant case: Amplitude and phase instabilities
- 9: Low threshold instabilities in the limit of adiabatic elimination of the atomic polarization
- 10: Self-pulsing in the case of adiabatic elimination of both atomic variables
- 11: The effective semiconductor Maxwell–Bloch equations (ESMBEs) for a doubled Fabry–Perot cavity
- 12: Complete picture of the adiabatic elimination of the material variables
- 13: Complete picture of the adiabatic elimination of the material polarization for ultra-fast semiconductor lasers
- 14: The Lugiato–Lefever equation for the Fabry–Perot cavity
- Appendix
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
- Cumulative index—volumes 1–68☆
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 68
- Published: April 6, 2023
- No. of pages (Hardback): 442
- No. of pages (eBook): 442
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443193842
- eBook ISBN: 9780443193859
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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