Progress in Optics
- 1st Edition, Volume 56 - November 23, 2011
- Imprint: Elsevier Science
- Editor: Emil Wolf
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 5 3 8 8 6 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 5 4 3 0 3 - 5
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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Preface
1. Space-Time Analogies in Optics
1. Introduction
2. Ultrashort Light Pulse Propagation in Dispersive Homogeneous Media
3. First-Order Approximation: Space-Time Analogy
4. Elements and their Implementations
5. Coherent Ultra-High-Speed Optical Systems and their Applications
6. Temporal Optics in the Noncoherent Regime
7. Temporal Optics in the Two-Photon Regime
8. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
2. Unconventional Polarization States
1. Introduction
2. Superposition Principles and Interferometric Methods
3. Direct Methods
4. Generalized Beam-Like Polarization States
5. Nonparaxial Propagation and Focusing
6. Surfaces, Edges, and Particles
7. Unconventional Polarization States in Nonlinear Optics
8. Partially Coherent Polarization Vortices
9. Summary and Acknowledgments
3. Quantum Scissors – Finite-Dimensional States Engineering
1. Introduction
2. Finite-Dimensional Quantum States
3. Linear Quantum Scissors
4. Nonlinear Quantum Scissors
Summary
4. Polarization and Spectral Properties of Biphotons
1. Introduction
2. Biphotons and How to Produce Them
3. Measurements on Biphotons
4. Spectral Properties
5. Polarization Properties
6. Beyond Biphotons
7. Conclusion
Acknowledgments
5. Engineering Nonlinear Optic Sources of Photonic Entanglement
1. Introduction
2. Quantum Nonlinear Optics
3. Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion
4. Four-Wave Mixing
5. Quantum Technologies
6. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Author Index for Volume 56
Subject Index for Volume 56
Contents of Previous Volumes
Cumulative Index – Volumes 1–56
1. Space-Time Analogies in Optics
1. Introduction
2. Ultrashort Light Pulse Propagation in Dispersive Homogeneous Media
3. First-Order Approximation: Space-Time Analogy
4. Elements and their Implementations
5. Coherent Ultra-High-Speed Optical Systems and their Applications
6. Temporal Optics in the Noncoherent Regime
7. Temporal Optics in the Two-Photon Regime
8. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
2. Unconventional Polarization States
1. Introduction
2. Superposition Principles and Interferometric Methods
3. Direct Methods
4. Generalized Beam-Like Polarization States
5. Nonparaxial Propagation and Focusing
6. Surfaces, Edges, and Particles
7. Unconventional Polarization States in Nonlinear Optics
8. Partially Coherent Polarization Vortices
9. Summary and Acknowledgments
3. Quantum Scissors – Finite-Dimensional States Engineering
1. Introduction
2. Finite-Dimensional Quantum States
3. Linear Quantum Scissors
4. Nonlinear Quantum Scissors
Summary
4. Polarization and Spectral Properties of Biphotons
1. Introduction
2. Biphotons and How to Produce Them
3. Measurements on Biphotons
4. Spectral Properties
5. Polarization Properties
6. Beyond Biphotons
7. Conclusion
Acknowledgments
5. Engineering Nonlinear Optic Sources of Photonic Entanglement
1. Introduction
2. Quantum Nonlinear Optics
3. Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion
4. Four-Wave Mixing
5. Quantum Technologies
6. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Author Index for Volume 56
Subject Index for Volume 56
Contents of Previous Volumes
Cumulative Index – Volumes 1–56
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 56
- Published: November 23, 2011
- No. of pages (eBook): 404
- Imprint: Elsevier Science
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780444538864
- eBook ISBN: 9780444543035
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Emil Wolf
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