Progress in Optics

Progress in Optics

Editorial Advisory Board

Progress in Optics

Contributors

Preface

The Microscope in a Computer: Image Synthesis from Three-Dimensional Full-Vector Solutions of Maxwell’s Equations at the Nanometer Scale

1 Introduction

2 Basic Principles of Electromagnetics and Optical Coherence

3 Structure of the Optical Imaging System

4 Implementation Examples

5 Summary

Appendix A Derivation of (18)

Appendix B Derivation of (72)

Appendix C Derivation of (136)

Microstructures and Nanostructures in Nature

1 Introduction

2 Sample Preparation and Electron Microscopy

3 Microstructures and Nanostructures of Selected Natural Objects

4 Discussion

5 Conclusion

Quantitative Phase Imaging

1 Introduction

2 The Physical Significance of the Measurable Phase

3 Principles of Full-field QPI

4 Spatial Light Interference Microscopy

5 Summary and Outlook

Tight Focusing of Light Beams: Effect of Polarization, Phase, and Coherence

1 Introduction

2 Tight focusing of beams with modulation

3 Coherence properties in tightly focused fields

4 Tight focusing of ultrashort light pulses

5 Conclusions

Direct and Inverse Problems in the Theory of Light Scattering

1 Introduction

2 Theory of Weak Scattering of Scalar Waves

3 Properties of the Scattered Scalar Field

4 Far-Zone Properties of Waves Scattered by Anisotropic Media

5 Scattering of Stochastic Electromagnetic Waves

6 Inverse Problems in the Theory of Scattering

7 Summary

Author Index

Subject Index

Cumulative Index