Progress in Optics

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.

Preface Taco D. Visser 1. Freeform optics design Juan C. Miñano, Pablo Benítez, Julio Chaves and Fabian Duerr 2. Attosecond pulses and laser-driven electron dynamics Michael Chini, John Beetar and Shima Gholam-Mirzaei 3. Quantum polarimetry Aaron Z. Goldberg 4. Young’s interference experiment: Past, present, and future Greg Gbur and Taco D. Visser