Progress in Optics

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