Progress in Optics: A Tribute to Emil Wolf

Taco D. Visser is a Professor of Physics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He has published more than one hundred papers on various topics in optics, such as scattering, diffraction, waveguides, coherence theory, singular optics and surface plasmon polaritions. Next to his theoretical work he is also actively engaged in experiments in nano-optics.

1. Memories of my father Bruno Wolf 2. Emil Wolf and Bristol Michael.V. Berry 3. Partial coherence in modern optics: Emil Wolf’s legacy in the 21st century Girish S. Agarwal and Anton Classen 4. Applications of optical coherence theory Olga Korotkova and Greg Gbur 5. Optical coherence and electromagnetic surface waves Yahong Chen, Andreas Norrman, Sergey A. Ponomarenko and Ari T. Friberg 6. Specular mirror interferometer Fabio Di Pumpo, Alexander Friedrich, Enno Giese, Albert Roura, Hartmut Lemmel, Daniel M. Greenberger, Ernst M. Rasel and Wolfgang P. Schleich 7. Maximum likelihood estimation in the context of an optical measurement Anthony Vella and Miguel A. Alonso 8. Partially polarized light and complementarity in quantum mechanics Mayukh Lahiri 9. Acousto-optic imaging in random media John C. Schotland