Progress in Optics (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Progress in Optics, Volume XXXVI 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 8
CHAPTER I. NONLINEAR PROPAGATION OF STRONG LASER PULSES IN CHALCOGENIDE GLASS FILMS 14
1. Introduction 16
2. Nonlinear Transmission of CW Laser Radiation through Thin ChG Films 17
3. Nonlinear Absorption of Laser Pulses in ChG 24
4. Optical Hysteresis and Nonlinear Absorption of Laser Pulses in ChG 32
5. Model of Nonlinear Light Absorption into a Highly Excited Noncrystalline Semiconductor: Phenomenological Approach 40
6. Refractive Index Changes of Chalcogenide Glasses 48
7. Conclusions 56
Acknowledgement 57
References 57
CHAPTER II. QUANTUM PHENOMENA IN OPTICAL INTERFEROMETRY 62
1. Introduction 64
2. Optical Sources 67
3. Second-order Interference 78
4. The Geometric Phase 86
5. Fourth-order Interference 91
6. Two-photon Interferometry 104
7. Complementarity 121
8. Quantum Limits to Interferometry 130
9. Conclusions 135
References 136
CHAPTER III. SUPER-RESOLUTION BY DATA INVERSION 142
1. Introduction 144
2. Resolution Limits and Bandwidth 147
3. Linear Inversion Methods and Filtering 155
4. Out-of-Band Extrapolation 167
5. Confocal Microscopy 175
6. Inverse Diffraction and Near-Field Imaging 181
Acknowledgements 185
Appendix A 186
Appendix B 187
References 189
CHAPTER IV. RADIATIVE TRANSFER: NEW ASPECTS OF THE OLD THEORY 192
1. Introduction 194
2. Radiative Transfer in Free Space 201
3. Phenomenological and Statistical-Wave Derivations of the Radiation Transfer Equation 213
4. New Aspects of the RTE 220
5. New Application Fields of the RTE 225
6. New Effects in Statistical Radiative Transfer 242
7. Conclusion 250
References 250
CHAPTER V. PHOTON WAVE FUNCTION 258
1. Introduction 261
2. Wave Equation for Photons 267
3. Photon Wave Function in Coordinate Representation 272
4. Photon Wave Function in Momentum Representation 276
5. Probabilistic Interpretation 280
6. Eigenvalue Problems for the Photon Wave Function 286
7. Relativistic Invariance of Photon Wave Mechanics 291
8. Localizability of Photons 292
9. Phase-Space Description of a Photon 294
10. Hydrodynamic Formulation 296
11. Photon Wave Function in Non-Cartesian Coordinate Systems and in Curved Space 298
12. Photon Wave Function as a Spinor Field 299
13. Photon Wave Functions and Mode Expansion of the Electromagnetic Field 301
14. Summary 303
Acknowledgments 304
References 305
Author Index 308
Subject Index 318
Contents of Previous Volumes 322
Cumulative Index 330