
Progress in Optics
Description
Key Features
- Contains comprehensive, in-depth reviews
- Includes contributions from leading authorities
- Informs and updates on all the latest developments in the field
- Presents timely and state-of-the-art reviews
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Table of Contents
Chapter One: Modern Aspects of Intensity Interferometry With Classical Light
Tomohiro Shirai- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Hanbury Brown–Twiss Effect With Classical Electromagnetic Beams
- 3 Ghost Imaging and Diffraction With Classical Light
- 4 Optical Coherence Tomography Based on Classical Intensity Interferometry
- 5 Concluding Remarks
- Acknowledgments
Chapter Two: Optical Testing and Interferometry
Daniel Malacara-Hernández and Daniel Malacara-Doblado- Abstract
- 1 Wavefront Representation and Its Characteristics
- 2 Tests That Measure Wavefront Distortions
- 3 Tests That Measure Transverse Aberrations
- 4 Tests That Measure Curvature
- 5 Interferogram Analysis
- 6 Phase Shifting Interferometry
- 7 Testing of Aspherical Surfaces
Chapter Three: Generation of Partially Coherent Beams
Yangjian Cai, Yahong, Chen, Jiayi Yu, Xianlong Liu and Lin Liu- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Characterization and Generation of Various Partially Coherent Beams
- 3 Summary
- Acknowledgments
Chapter Four: Optical Models and Symmetries
Kurt B. Wolf- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Euclidean Group
- 3 The Fundamental Object of a Model
- 4 The Geometric Model
- 5 The Wave and Helmholtz Models
- 6 Paraxial Models
- 7 Linear Transformations of Phase Space
- 8 The Metaxial Regime
- 9 Discrete Optical Models
- Appendix A The SU(2) Wigner Function
- Acknowledgments
Chapter Five: Classical Coherence of Blackbody Radiation
Kasimir Blomstedt, Ari T. Friberg and Tero Setala- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Blackbody Radiation Inside a Cavity
- 3 Blackbody Radiation in an Aperture
- 4 Blackbody Radiation in the Far Zone of an Aperture
- 5 Summary
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix A Blackbody Coherence in Cavities
- Appendix B Derivation of Aperture and Far-Field Mutual Coherence Matrices
Product details
- No. of pages: 392
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2017
- Published: March 27, 2017
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128119990
- eBook ISBN: 9780128120002
About the Serial Editor
Taco Visser
