Progress in Optics (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Progress in Optics, Volume XXVI 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 14
Preface 12
CHAPTER I. PHOTON BUNCHING AND ANTIBUNCHING 20
§ 1. Introduction 22
§ 2. Bunched Light from Independent Radiators 27
§ 3. Antibunched Light from Independent Radiators 52
§ 4. Randomization of Sub-Poisson Photon Streams 70
§ 5. Observations of Antibunched and Conditionally Sub-Poisson Photon Emissions 74
§ 6. Generation of Antibunched and Sub-Poisson Light by Photon Feedback 81
§ 7. Generation of Antibunched and Sub-Poisson Light by Excitation Feedback 92
§ 8. Information Transmission Using Sub-Poisson Light 110
References 118
CHAPTER II. NONLINEAR OPTICS OF LIQUID CRYSTALS 124
§ 1. Introduction 126
§ 2. Fundamentals of Liquid Crystals 128
§ 3. Nonlinear Optical Processes 152
§ 4. Further Remarks and Conclusions 174
Acknowledgement 176
References 176
CHAPTER III. SINGLE-LONGITUDINAL-MODE SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS 182
§ 1. Introduction 184
§ 2. Fabry–Perot Semiconductor Lasers 185
§ 3. Requirements for Single-Longitudinal-Mode Operation 197
§ 4. Distributed-Feedback Semiconductor Lasers 199
§ 5. Coupled-Cavity Semiconductor Lasers 216
§ 6. Modulation Performance 227
§ 7. Spectral Linewidth 235
§ 8. Conclusion 240
References 241
CHAPTER IV. RAYS AND CAUSTICS AS PHYSICAL OBJECTS 246
§ 1. Introduction 248
§ 2. Elements of Geometrical Optics 249
§ 3. Fresnel Volumes of Rays 257
§ 4. Heuristic Criteria for Applicability of Geometrical Optics 278
§ 5. Ray-Optical Estimates of the Field in Domains of Inapplicability of Geometrical Optics 284
§ 6. Utility and Applications of Heuristic Criteria 289
§ 7. Caustics and Caustic Zones 308
§ 8. Fresnel Volumes of Diffracted Rays and Applicability Limits for the Geometrical Theory of Diffraction 321
§ 9. Domain of Localization of Complex Rays 343
§ 10. Ray Skeleton of Uniform Caustic Asymptotic Solutions 355
§ 11. Concluding Remarks 362
Acknowledgements 363
References 364
CHAPTER V. PHASE-MEASUREMENT INTERFEROMETRY TECHNIQUES 368
§ 1. Introduction 370
§ 2. Means of Shifting and Determining Phase 371
§ 3. Phase-Measurement Algorithms 376
§ 4. Measurement Example 387
§ 5. Error Analysis 392
§ 6. Simulation Results 398
§ 7. Removing System Aberrations 404
§ 8. Applications of Phase-Measurement Interferometry 407
References 410
Author Index 414
Subject Index 424
Cumulative Index, Volumes I–XXVI 428