Progress in Optics (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Progress in Optics, Volume XXXV 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 8
CHAPTER I. TRANSVERSE PATTERNS IN WIDE-APERTURE NONLINEAR OPTICAL SYSTEMS 14
1. Introduction 16
2. Filamentation 18
3. Spatial Solitons 34
4. Switching Waves and Spatial Hysteresis 47
5. Diffractive Autosolitons in Nonlinear Interferometers 54
6. Autosolitons in Lasers and Nonlinear Waveguides 62
Conclusion 67
References 70
CHAPTER II. OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY OF SINGLE MOLECULES IN SOLIDS 74
1. Introduction 76
2. Principles and Theoretical Background 79
3. Experimental Methods 96
4. Review of Results 108
5. Outlook 143
6. Conclusion 151
Acknowledgement 151
Note added in proof 152
References 152
CHAPTER III. INTERFEROMETRIC MULTISPECTRAL IMAGING 158
1. Introduction 160
2. Classification of the Spectral Imaging Techniques 162
3. Unified Theory of Coherence Detection and Multispectral Imaging 172
4. Interferometric Multispectral Imaging in the Image Plane 187
5. Noise Limitations 198
6. Conclusions 204
Acknowledgements 205
List of Symbols and Abbreviations 205
References 207
CHAPTER IV. INTERFEROMETRIC METHODS FOR ARTWORK DIAGNOSTICS 210
1. Introduction 212
2. General Remarks on Holographic Interferometry 215
3. Electronic Speckle Pattern Interferometry 241
Conclusion 264
Acknowledgements 265
References 266
CHAPTER V. COHERENT POPULATION TRAPPING IN LASER SPECTROSCOPY 270
1. Introduction 272
2. Analysis for Discrete States 276
3. Spectroscopy for Discrete States 301
4. Coherent Population Trapping in the Continuum 322
5. Laser Cooling 323
6. Adiabatic Transfer 338
7. "Lasing Without Inversion" 342
8. Coherences Created by Spontaneous Emission 353
9. Pulse-Matching and Photon Statistics 354
10. Conclusions 357
Acknowledgments 359
References 360
CHAPTER VI. QUANTUM PHASE PROPERTIES OF NONLINEAR OPTICAL PHENOMENA 368
1. Introduction 370
2. Phase formalisms 375
3. Phase properties of single-mode optical fields 391
4. Phase Properties of Two-Mode Optical Fields 412
5. Conclusion 439
Acknowledgments 439
Appendix A. Garrison–Wong Phase Formalism 440
Appendix B. States for the Pegg-Barnett Phase Formalism 443
References 447
Author Index 460
Subject Index 476
Contents of Previous Volumes 480
Cumulative Index 488