Progress in Optics, Volume 56

Preface

Chapter 1: Space-Time Analogies in Optics

1. Introduction

2. Ultrashort Light Pulse Propagation in Dispersive Homogeneous Media

3. First-Order Approximation: Space-Time Analogy

4. Elements and their Implementations

5. Coherent Ultra-High-Speed Optical Systems and their Applications

6. Temporal Optics in the Noncoherent Regime

7. Temporal Optics in the Two-Photon Regime

8. Conclusions

Acknowledgments

Chapter 2: Unconventional Polarization States

1. Introduction

2. Superposition Principles and Interferometric Methods

3. Direct Methods

4. Generalized Beam-Like Polarization States

5. Nonparaxial Propagation and Focusing

6. Surfaces, Edges, and Particles

7. Unconventional Polarization States in Nonlinear Optics

8. Partially Coherent Polarization Vortices

9. Summary and Acknowledgments

Chapter 3: Quantum Scissors – Finite-Dimensional States Engineering

1. Introduction

2. Finite-Dimensional Quantum States

3. Linear Quantum Scissors

4. Nonlinear Quantum Scissors

Summary

Chapter 4: Polarization and Spectral Properties of Biphotons

1. Introduction

2. Biphotons and How to Produce Them

3. Measurements on Biphotons

4. Spectral Properties

5. Polarization Properties

6. Beyond Biphotons

7. Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Chapter 5: Engineering Nonlinear Optic Sources of Photonic Entanglement

1. Introduction

2. Quantum Nonlinear Optics

3. Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion

4. Four-Wave Mixing

5. Quantum Technologies

6. Conclusions

Acknowledgements

Author Index for Volume 56

Subject Index for Volume 56

Contents of Previous Volumes

Cumulative Index – Volumes 1–56

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