Progress in Optics
- 1st Edition, Volume 70 - April 29, 2025
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editor: Taco Visser
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 1 7 5 0 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 1 7 5 1 - 4
Progress in Optics, Volume 70 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 70 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. Chapters in this new release include Phased-array lidar, Holographic metasurfaces, Schlieren imaging, Statistical Properties of Polarization Speckle, The Talbot effect, Space-time optics, Structured light, Application of partial coherence in the quantum domain, Natural mode expansions, and Skyrmionic beams.
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- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Series Page
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter One: Three-dimensional quantitative Schlieren imaging
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Quantitative imaging principles of Schlieren/shadowgraphy
- 3 Typical 3D Schlieren imaging system
- 4 Application of 3D Schlieren/shadowgraphy imaging in flow structure measurement
- 5 Application of 3D Schlieren/shadowgraphy imaging in density measurement
- 6 Application of 3D Schlieren/shadowgraphy imaging in temperature measurement
- 7 Application of 3D Schlieren/shadowgraphy imaging in velocity measurement
- 8 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter Two: Statistical properties of polarization speckle
- Abstract
- 1 Origins and manifestations of polarization speckle
- 2 First-order statistical properties of polarization speckle
- 3 Some higher-order statistical properties of polarization speckle
- 4 Statistics of integrated polarization speckle
- 5 Effects of surface microstructure of birefringent polarization scrambler on polarization speckle
- 6 Conclusion
- Acknowledgement
- References
- Chapter Three: Applications of partially coherent optical fields in the quantum domain
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Partially coherent beams in classical domain
- 3 Generation and characterization of partially coherent quantum optical fields
- 4 Partially coherent entangled qubits useful for quantum communication
- 5 Utilization of partial coherence in quantum imaging
- 6 Effects of partial coherence on squeezing, non-Gaussianity and sensing
- 7 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter Four: Quasi normal modes and resonance states in classical- and quantum optics: An assessment of non-Hermitian physics
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Quasi normal modes and Green tensor expansions for highly dispersive media
- 3 Completeness and overcompleteness
- 4 Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, degeneracies and exceptional points (EP)
- 5 Optomechanics
- 6 QNM modes and black holes
- 7 Spectral singular lasing modes
- 8 Frequency, permittivity and length and resonances
- 9 Nonlinear effects and QNM and EP
- References
- Chapter Five: Optical quasiparticles in paraxial laser beams
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Skyrmions
- 3 Bimerons
- 4 Skyrmioniums and bimeroniums
- 5 Skyrmionic hopfions
- 6 Experimental realization of optical quasiparticles
- 7 Wavelength tuning of optical quasiparticles
- 8 Experimental artefacts in the optical quasiparticles of paraxial laser beams
- 9 Current and future prospects for optical quasiparticles
- 10 Summary and conclusions
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- Cumulative index—volumes 1–70
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 70
- Published: April 29, 2025
- No. of pages (Hardback): 388
- No. of pages (eBook): 222
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443317507
- eBook ISBN: 9780443317514
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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