Progress in Optics
- 1st Edition, Volume 69 - April 24, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editor: Taco Visser
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 3 7 7 1 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 3 7 7 2 - 0
Progress in Optics, Volume 69 is the latest release in a yearly publication that provides in-depth reviews on topics in experimental theoretical optics, as well as on optica… Read more
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Request a sales quoteProgress in Optics, Volume 69 is the latest release in a yearly publication that provides in-depth reviews on topics in experimental theoretical optics, as well as on optical engineering. The book's intended audience are researchers and graduate students. Chapters in this new release include Radiative Transport in Rotated Reference Frames, Consistent scalar imaging theory, Single photon detection with superconducting detectors and their applications, Phased-array lidar, Pearcey beams and autofocusing waves, Meta-surfaces, and Holographic metasurfaces.
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- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Series Page
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter One: Rotated reference frames in radiative transport theory
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Radiative transport equation
- 3 The first example of rotated reference frames for the RTE
- 4 Fundamental solution to the three-dimensional RTE
- 5 Fundamental solution in flatland
- 6 Rotation of reference frames
- 7 Three-dimensional FN method
- 8 Three-dimensional analytical discrete ordinates
- 9 Rotated reference frames with the spherical-harmonic expansion
- 10 Applications
- 11 Concluding remarks
- A. Singular eigenfunctions
- B. Eq. (121)
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter Two: Consistent scalar imaging theory
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Incoming inclination factor
- 3 Outgoing inclination factor
- 4 Validity of inclination factors from the viewpoint of the diffraction on the surface in space
- 5 Conservation of energy between pupil and image plane
- 6 Correspondence principle
- 7 Similarity between the PSF in the original use and the PSF when object and image are interchanged
- 8 Using the direction cosine as pupil coordinate, and discussion from a viewpoint of propagation of plane waves
- 9 Fourier imaging theory
- 10 Non-isoplanatic imaging
- 11 Off-axis object point
- 12 Summary
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter Three: Single and few-photon detection using superconducting transition edge sensors
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Single photons and their detection
- 3 Optical transition edge sensors
- 4 Applications
- 5 Conclusion and outlook
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Chapter Four: Pearcey beams and autofocusing waves
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Prototypical Pearcey beams
- 3 Generalized Pearcey beams
- 4 Applications
- 5 Summary
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter Five: Metamaterials for analog all-optical computation
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Spatio-temporal image processing via metasurfaces
- 3 Tunable computational metasurafces
- 4 Nonlinear computational metamaterials
- 5 Final remarks and outlook
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- Cumulative index—volumes 1–69
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 69
- Published: April 24, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 292
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443237713
- eBook ISBN: 9780443237720
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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.
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Professor of Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsRead Progress in Optics on ScienceDirect