Progress in Optics Volume 39, Volume 39

Progress in Optics Volume 39, Volume 39 image
ISBN-10:

0444501045

ISBN-13:

9780444501042

Edition: 1
Released: Jul 01, 1999
Publisher: North-Holland
Format: Hardcover, 510 pages
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Description:

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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