Progress in Optics Volume 39, Volume 39 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0444501045 ISBN 13: 9780444501042

Publisher: North Holland, 1999

Synopsis

Hardbound. Volume XXXIX presents five review articles dealing with topics of current research interest in optics. The book opens with a chapter dealing with the analytic extension of the concept of geometrical optics rays into the complex domain. The extension is intimately related to inhomogeneous (evanescent) waves, which are currently of particular interest in connection with the rapidly developing area of near-field optics. The results are also relevant to investigations of wave attenuation in absorbing media, and to the understanding of light penetration into geometrical shadow regions, excitation of surface waves and propagation of Gaussian beams. In this article the principles are presented, with special emphasis on the physical significance of complex rays and their applications. The next article describes recent progress in the general area of quantum-state reconstruction particularly for extracting information about the quantum state of a gi

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Review

No volume of Progress in Optics needs a long review: you just need to know that a new one has appeared and to make sure your librarian has a standing order. -- Applied Optics

Edition details

• Publisher: North Holland
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0444501045
• ISBN 13: 9780444501042
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 510
• Editor: Unknown Author