Progress in optics. Volume 49 (2006)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by E. Wolf.
• Other Names: Wolf, Emil
• Contents: Front cover; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Light Waves; 1.1 INTRODUCTION; 1.2 MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS; 1.3 THE WAVE EQUATION; 1.3.1 Plane Wave Solution; 1.3.2 Spherical and Cylindrical Wave Solutions; 1.3.3 Beam-Like Solutions; 1.4 HOMOGENEOUS AND INHOMOGENEOUS WAVES; 1.5 ENERGY DENSITY AND POYNTING VECTOR; 1.6 BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; 1.6.1 Continuity of the Normal Components; 1.6.2 Continuity of the Tangential Components; 1.7 REFLECTION AND TRANSMISSION AT A BOUNDARY; 1.7.1 External Reflections; 1.7.1.1 Brewster Angle. 1.7.2 Reflectance and Transmittance1.7.3 Internal Reflections; 1.7.3.1 Fresnel Rhomb; 1.7.4 Frustrated Total Internal Reflection; 1.7.5 Reflection from a Metallic Surface; 1.8 PASSAGE OF LIGHT THROUGH A PRISM; 1.9 DISPERSION; 1.9.1 Dispersion in Dilute Gases; 1.9.2 Dispersion in Dense Media; 1.9.3 Group and Signal Velocities; 1.10 PROPAGATION OF LIGHT IN ANISOTROPIC MEDIA; 1.10.1 Fresnel Equation; 1.10.2 Geometrical Constructions; 1.10.2.1 Index Ellipsoid; 1.10.2.2 Normal Surface; 1.10.3 Uniaxial Crystals; 1.10.4 Biaxial Crystals; 1.10.5 Double Refraction; 1.10.6 Polarizing Prisms. 1.11 REFERENCES1.12 PROBLEMS; 2 Coherence of Light Waves; 2.1 POLYCHROMATIC LIGHT; 2.1.1 Quasi-monochromatic Light; 2.2 PARTIALLY COHERENT LIGHT; 2.2.1 Spatial and Temporal Coherence; 2.3 COMPLEX COHERENCE FUNCTIONS; 2.3.1 Stationary and Time-Averaged Fields; 2.3.2 Intensity of Polychromatic Light; 2.4 SELF COHERENCE; 2.4.1 Complex Degree of Self Coherence; 2.4.2 Fourier Transform Spectroscopy; 2.5 MUTUAL COHERENCE; 2.5.1 Complex Degree of Mutual Coherence; 2.5.2 Coherence of Light from an Extended Source; 2.5.3 Michelson Stellar Interferometer; 2.6 VAN CITTERT-ZERNIKE THEOREM. 2.6.1 Incoherent Quasi-monochromatic Source of Circular Cross-Section2.6.2 Area of Coherence; 2.7 INTENSITY CORRELATIONS; 2.7.1 Hanbury Brown and Twiss Experiment; 2.7.2 Photon Statistics; 2.8 REFERENCES; 2.9 PROBLEMS; 3 Polarization of Light Waves; 3.1 STATES OF POLARIZATION; 3.1.1 Linear Polarization; 3.1.2 Elliptical and Circular Polarizations; 3.1.3 Helicity of Light Waves; 3.2 THE POLARIZATION ELLIPSE; 3.3 MATRIX REPRESENTATION OF POLARIZATION STATES; 3.3.1 The Jones Vectors; 3.3.1.1 Linearly Polarized Light; 3.3.1.2 Circularly Polarized Light; 3.3.1.3 Elliptically Polarized Light. 3.3.1.4 Orthogonality of Jones Vectors3.3.2 Jones Matrices for Linear Optical Devices; 3.3.2.1 Linear Polarizers; 3.3.2.2 Phase Retarders; 3.3.2.3 Quarter-Wave Plate; 3.3.2.4 Half-Wave Plate; 3.4 THE STOKES PARAMETERS; 3.4.1 Monochromatic Light; 3.4.2 Quasi-monochromatic Light; 3.4.3 Completely Unpolarized Light; 3.4.4 Mixture of Mutually Incoherent Light Fields; 3.4.5 Geometrical Interpretation of Stokes Parameters; 3.5 THE POINCARÉ SPHERE; 3.6 MUELLER MATRICES; 3.6.1 Linear Polarizer; 3.6.2 Phase Retarder; 3.7 THE COHERENCY MATRIX; 3.8 PANCHARATNAM THEOREM; 3.9 REFERENCES; 3.10 PROBLEMS.
• Publisher Details: Amsterdam : Elsevier
• Publication Date: 2006
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 600), illustrations
• Subjects: 535; Optics; Physics; Optics; Physics; Optics; Physics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780080463919; 0080463916; 9780080463582; 0080463584
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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