Progress in Optics, Volume 58

• Editorial Advisory Board
• Contributors
• Preface
• Chapter 1. Dynamic Photonic Materials Based on Liquid Crystals
• Abstract
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Photonic Devices Based on Cholesteric Liquid Crystals
• 3 Holographic Polymer Dispersed in Liquid Crystals
• 4 POLICRYPS Structures
• 5 Tunable Diffractive Waveplates
• 6 Liquid Crystals Active Plasmonic Nanomaterials
• 7 Conclusions
• Acknowledgments
• References
• Chapter 2. Invisibility Physics: Past, Present, and Future
• Abstract
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Early Concepts of Invisibility
• 3 Nonscattering Objects and Inverse Problems
• 4 Optical Cloaking
• 5 Other Cloaking Designs
• 6 Experiments and Material Properties
• 7 Related Applications
• 8 Invisibility in Science Fiction
• 9 Concluding Remarks
• Acknowledgments
• References
• Chapter 3. Phase Anomalies in Micro-Optics
• Abstract
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Gouy Phase
• 3 Measurement Methods
• 4 Gouy Phase in Highly Focused Light
• 5 Gouy Phase of 2D and 3D Focusing by Microlenses
• 6 Axial Phase Shift After a Single Diffraction Object
• 7 Phase Anomaly After a Periodic Diffraction Object
• 8 Gouy Phase After a Dielectric Microsphere
• 9 Conclusions
• Acknowledgments
• References
• Chapter 4. Subwavelength Atom Localization
• Abstract
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Techniques for 1D Atom Localization
• 3 Applications
• 4 Discussion and Conclusions
• Acknowledgments
• References
• Chapter 5. Low-Dimensional Silicon Structures for Use in Photonic Circuits
• Abstract
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Formation of Low-Dimensional Si
• 3 Characterization of Low-Dimensional (LD) Si
• 4 Applications of Low-Dimensional Si
• 5 Concluding Remarks
• References
• Author Index
• Subject Index
• Contents of Previous Volumes
• Cumulative Index-Volumes 1–58

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