International Trends in Optics

Integrated optics - OEICs or PICs?, H.Kogelnik; quantum opto-electronics for optical processing, D.A.B.Miller; optics in telecommunications - beyond transmission, P.W.E.Smith; microoptics, K.Iga; holographic optical elements for use with semiconductor lasers, H.P.Herzig and R.Dadliker; fiber optic signal processing, B.Culshaw and I.Adonovic; optical memories, Y.Tsunado; what are photorefractives good for?, H.Rajbenbach and J.-P.Huignard; adaptive interferometry - a new area of applications of photorefractive crystals, S.I.Stepanov; water wave optics, J.J.Stamnes; about the philosophies of diffraction, A.W.Lohmann; the essential journals of optics, J.N.Howard; optics in China - ancient and modern accomplishments, Z.-M.Zhang; unusual optics - optical interconnects as learned from the eyes of (nocturnal insects), crayfish, shellfish and similar creatures, P.Greguss; the opposition effect in volume and surface scattering, K.C.Dainty; influence of source-correlations on spectra of radiated fields, E.Wolf; quantum statistics and coherence of nonlinear optical processes, J.Perina; one photon light-pulses versus attenuated classical light-pulses, A.Aspect and P.Grangier; optical propagation through the atmosphere, A.Consortini; are the fundamental principles of holography sufficient for the creation of new types of 3D cinematography and artificial intelligence?. Y.N.Denisyuk; medical applications of holographic 3D display, J.Tsujiuchi; Moire fringes and their applicatons, O.Bryngdahl; breaking the boundaries of optical system design and construction , C.H.F.Velzel; interferometry - what's new since Michelson?, P.Hariharan; curreent trends in optical testing, D.Malacara; adaptive optics, F.Merkel; triple correlations and dispectra in high-resolution astonomical imaging. H.Weigelt; phase retrieval imaging problems, J.R.Fienup; blind deconvolution - recovering the seemingly irrecoverable!, R.H.T.Bates and H.Jiang; pattern recognition, similarity, neural nets, and optics, H.H.Arsenault and Y.Sheng; towards nonlinear optical processing, T.Szoplik and K.Chalasinska-Macukow; new apects of optics for optical computing, V.Morozov; digital optical computing, S.D. Smith; computing - a joint venture for light and electricity?, P.Chavel.