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Progress in Optics

  • 1st Edition, Volume 55 - December 15, 2010
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Emil Wolf
  • Language: English

In the 50 years since the first volume of Progress in Optics was published, optics has become one of the most dynamic fields of science. The volumes in this series that have appear… Read more

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Description

In the 50 years since the first volume of Progress in Optics was published, optics has become one of the most dynamic fields of science. The volumes in this series that have appeared up to now contain more than 300 review articles by distinguished research workers, which have become permanent records for many important developments.

Key features

  • Invariant Optical Fields
  • Quantum Optics in Structured Media
  • Polarization and Coherence Optics
  • Optical Quantum Computation
  • Photonic Crystals
  • Lase Beam-Splitting Gratings

Readership

Researchers, professors, (post) graduate students, Academic and corporate libraries in the field of optics

Table of contents

1. Optical Pulse Propagation in Biological media: Theory and Numerical MethodsMalin Premaratne2. Manipulating light states by single-photon addition and SubtractionMarco Bellini and Alessandro Zavatta 3. Vacuum-induced processes in multi-level atomsM. Kiffner, M. Macovei, J. Evers and C. H. Keitel4. Adaptive LensGuoqiang Li5. The structure of partially coherent fieldsG. Gbur and T. Visser

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 55
  • Published: August 7, 2013
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Emil Wolf

Professor Wolf works at the University of Rochester, NY, USA
Affiliations and expertise
University of Rochester, NY, USA

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