International Trends in Optics and Photonics

Fundamental Optics (General, Physical and Quantum Optics).- Optical Twist.- Principles and Fundamentals of Near Field Optics.- Spin-Orbit Interaction of a Photon: Theory and Experimentation on the Mutual Influence of Polarization and Propagation.- Atoms and Cavities: The Birth of a Schrödinger Cat of the Radiation Field.- Quantum Tomography of Wigner Functions from Incomplete Data.- Information Optics.- Some New Aspects of the Resolution in Gaussian Pupil Optics.- Multichannel Photography with Digital Fourier Optics.- Holographic Optics for Beamsplitting and Image Multiplication.- Image Restoration, Enhancement and Target Location with Local Adaptive Linear Filters.- Fuzzy Problem for Correlation Recognition in Optical Digital Image Processing.- Optical Communication (Photonics and Optoelectronics).- All-Optical Regeneration for Global-Distance Fiber-Optic Communications.- Non-quantum Cryptography for Secure Optical Communications.- Optical Materials and Processing.- Pulsed Laser Deposition: An Overview.- Absolute Scale of Quadratic Nonlinear-Optical Susceptibilities.- Optical Technologies.- Femtosecond Fourier Optics: Shaping and Processing of Ultrashort Optical Pulses.- Aperture-modulated Diffusers (AMDs).- Optical Properties of Quasiperiodic Structures: Linear and Nonlinear Analysis.- Optical Metrology (Optical Systems).- Diffractive Optical Elements in Materials Inspection.- Multiple-Wavelength Interferometry for Absolute Distance Measurement.- Speckle Metrology: Some Newer Techniques and Applications.- Limits of Optical Range Sensors and How to Exploit Them.- Imaging Spectroscopy for the Non-invasive Investigation of Paintings.- Biomedical Optics.- Optical Coherence Tomography in Medicine.- The Spectral Optimization of Human Vision: Some Paradoxes, Errors andResolutions.- Others.- Optical Methods for Reproducing Sounds from Old Phonograph Records.