Progress in Optics (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Progress in Optics, Volume XXXII 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 16
CHAPTER I. GUIDED-WAVE OPTICS ON SILICON: PHYSICS, TECHNOLOGY AND STATUS 20
§ 1. Introduction 22
§ 2. Physics and Analysis of Optical Waveguides 25
§ 3. Technology of Silicon-Based Optical Waveguides 44
§ 4. Guided-wave Optical Components on Silicon 57
§ 5. Active Waveguides on Silicon 68
§ 6. Conclusions 69
Acknowledgement 70
References 70
CHAPTER II. OPTICAL NEURAL NETWORKS: ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN AND MODELS 80
§ 1. Introduction 82
§ 2. Optical Associative Memory 85
§ 3. Optical Neural Networks 88
§ 4. Neural Network Models 99
§ 5. Redundant Interconnection Neural Networks 124
§ 6. Optical Implementation of Hamming Nets 132
§ 7. Information Storage Capacity 140
§ 8. Self-organizing Optical Neural Networks 150
§ 9. Conclusion 161
References 162
CHAPTER III. THE THEORY OF OPTIMAL METHODS FOR LOCALIZATION OF OBJECTS IN PICTURES 164
§ 1. Introduction 166
§ 2. The Accuracy and Reliability of the Localization of Two-Dimensional Objects on a Plane 168
§ 3. Localization of Objects on a Complex Background with a Minimum of Anomalous Errors 191
§ 4. Conclusion 218
Acknowledgements 219
References 219
CHAPTER IV. WAVE PROPAGATION THEORIES IN RANDOM MEDIA BASED ON THE PATH-INTEGRAL APPROACH 222
§ 1. Introduction 224
§ 2. Problem Formulation and Governing Equations 228
§ 3. Introduction to Path Integrals 236
§ 4. Path-Integral Representations of Wave Fields in Inhomogeneous Media 248
§ 5. Path-Integral Representations of Moments 260
§ 6. The Connection Between Heuristic Approximations and Path-Integral Representations 270
§ 7. Conclusions 280
Acknowledgements 281
References 281
CHAPTER V. RADIATION BY UNIFORMLY MOVING SOURCES Vavilov–Cherenkov effect, Doppler effect in a medium, transition radiation and associated phenomena 286
§ 1. Introduction 288
§ 2. Vavilov–Cherenkov Effect for a Charge 290
§ 3. Quantum Theory of the Vavilov–Cherenkov Effect 296
§ 4. Vavilov–Cherenkov Radiation in the Case of Motion in Channels and Gaps 298
§ 5. Vavilov–Cherenkov Radiation for Electric, Magnetic and Toroidal Dipoles 300
§ 6. Classical and Quantum Theories of the Doppler Effect in a Medium 307
§ 7. Acceleration Radiation 311
§ 8. Transition Radiation at the Boundary between two Media 313
§ 9. Transition Radiation as a more general Phenomenon. Formation Zone 318
§ 10. Transition Scattering. Transition Bremsstrahlung 322
§ 11. Transition Radiation, Transition Scattering and Transition Bremsstrahlung in a Plasma 325
§ 12. Concluding Remarks 328
References 330
CHAPTER VI. NONLINEAR OPTICAL PROCESSES IN ATOMS AND IN WEAKLY RELATIVISTIC PLASMAS 332
§ 1. Introduction 334
§ 2. Laser Light Polarization Effects 335
§ 3. Resonance Effects 336
§ 4. Laser Temporal-Coherence Effects in Nonresonant Multiphoton Ionization of Atoms 340
§ 5. Laser Temporal-Coherence Effects in Resonant Multiphoton Ionization of Atoms 351
§ 6. Relativistic Self-Focusing of a Laser Pulse in a Plasma 354
References 377
Author Index 382
Subject Index 392
Cumulative Index 396