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PROGRESS IN OPTICS, 50
Progress in Optics, 50
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Emil Wolf, University of Rochester, NY, USA

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Progress in Optics, 50

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In the fourty-six years that have gone by since the first volume of Progress in Optics was published, optics has become one of the most dynamic fields of science. The volumes in this series which have appeared up to now contain nearly 300 review articles by distinguished research workers, which have become permanent records for many important developments.

Audience
Researchers, professors, (post) graduate students, Academic and corporate libraries in the field of optics

Contents
Preface 1. From Millisecond to Attosecond Laser Pulses, N. Bloembergen 2. Conical Diffraction: Hamilton's Diabolical point at the Heart of Crystal Optics, M. Berry and M.R. Jeffrey 3. Historical Papers on the Particle Concept of Light, O. Keller 4. Field Quantization in Optics, P. Milonni 5. The History of Near-Field Optics, L. Novotny 6. Light Tunneling, H.M. Nussenzveig 7. The Influence of Young's Interference Experiment on the Development of Statistical Optics, E. Wolf 8. Planck, Photon Statistics, and Bose-Einstein Condensation, D.M. Greenberger, N. Erez, M.O. Scully, A.A. Svidzinsky and S. Zubairy Author index for Volume 50 Subject index for Volume 50 Contents of previous volumes Cumulative index - Volumes 1-50

Bibliographic details
Hardbound, 384 pages, publication date: NOV-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-53023-3
ISBN-10: 0-444-53023-1
Imprint: ELSEVIER

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