Progress in Optics (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Progress in Optics, Volume XXVII 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 16
CHAPTER I. THE SELF-IMAGING PHENOMENON AND ITS APPLICATIONS 22
1. Introduction 24
2. Theoretical considerations 27
3. Applications of the self-imaging phenomenon 69
4. Theoretical considerations: Incoherent illumination 96
5. Applications of self-imaging under incoherent illumination 112
6. Periodicities of optical fields 120
7. Conclusions 122
Acknowledgements 122
References 122
CHAPTER II. AXICONS AND MESO-OPTICAL IMAGING DEVICES 130
1. Introduction 132
2. Axicons 133
3. The gravitational lens 141
4. Optical translators and focusators 143
5. Meso-optics 147
6. The Meso-optical Fourier Transform Microscope 149
7. A meso-optical microscope for vertical straight lines 168
8. The acylindrical lens as a meso-optical element 173
9. Conclusions 176
Acknowledgements 176
List of symbols 177
References 179
CHAPTER III. NONIMAGING OPTICS FOR FLUX CONCENTRATION 182
1. Introduction 184
2. Geometrical optics of nonimaging systems 188
3. 2D concentrator designs with mirrors 192
4. 3D mirror system 201
5. Hybrid reflecting–refracting systems 203
6. Second stage optics and truncation 208
7. Nonspecular Reflectors 209
8. Geometrical vector flux formalism 225
9. Some physical aspects of nonimaging optics 235
References 246
CHAPTER IV. NONLINEAR WAVE PROPAGATION IN PLANAR STRUCTURES 248
1. Introduction 250
2. Nonlinear electromagnetic waves guided by a single interface 253
3. Transverse electric polarized nonlinear optical waves guided by thin dielectric films 273
4. Transverse electric polarized nonlinear surface plasmon polaritons 310
5. Experimental status 318
6. Conclusions 329
Acknowledgements 330
References 330
CHAPTER V. GENERALIZED HOLOGRAPHY WITH APPLICATION TO INVERSE SCATTERING AND INVERSE SOURCE PROBLEMS 336
1. Introduction 338
2. Generalized backpropagation 340
3. Holographic imaging 358
4. Imaging solutions to inverse source problems 372
5. Determination of structure of weakly scattering objects 395
6. Conclusion 413
Acknowledgements 413
Appendix A. Field representation for surface sources 414
References 416
Author Index 420
Subject Index 430
Cumulative Index, Volumes I–XXVII 434