International Trends in Optics and Photonics

This book gives a broad and authoritative overview of research currently underway in the fields of optical science and engineering throughout the world. The contributions, which are written by internationally renowned scientists, are of particular interest to specialists and nonspecialists in the many disciplines covered. They are less formal than the standard technical reviews found in academic journals and this is what makes the book accessible to readers who are not specialists in optical science and engineering.
TOC: Optical Twist.- Principles and Fundamentals of Near Field Optics.- Spin-Orbit Interaction of a Photon.- Atoms and Cavities.- Quantum Tomography of Wigner Functions.- Some New Aspects on the Resolution in Guassian 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.- All-Optical Regeneration for Global-distance Fiber-Optic Communications.- Non Quantum Cryptography ...- Limits of Optical Range Sensors.- Imaging Spectroscopy for the Non-Invasive Investigations of Paintings.- Optical Coherence Tomography in Medicine.- The Spectral Optimization of Human Vision.- Optical Methods for Reproducing Sounds from old Photograph Records.