Progress in Optics

by Taco Visser

Overview

Progress in Optics, Volume 68 highlights new advances in the field of optics, with this updated volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of timely topics in the field. Chapters in this release include Nonlinear Optical Polarimetry with application in biomicroscopy, Single-photon Sources, Introduction to Tensor Networks and Matrix Product States with Applications in Cavity and Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics, Rotated frames, Phase retrieval, and more. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors who review the latest developments in optics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780444642752
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	03/28/2019
Series:	Progress in Optics , #64
Pages:	331
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Taco D. Visser is a Professor of Physics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He has published more than one hundred papers on various topics in optics, such as scattering, diffraction, waveguides, coherence theory, singular optics and surface plasmon polaritions. Next to his theoretical work he is also actively engaged in experiments in nano-optics.

Table of Contents

1. Computational Optics Through Sequence TransformationsRiccardo Borghi2. Coherence of Supercontinuum LightGoëry Genty, Ari T. Friberg and Jari Turunen3. Quantum OptomechanicsFarid Ya. Khalili and Stefan L. Danilishin4. Light Modes of Free SpaceUri Levy, Stanislav Derevyanko and Yaron Silberberg5. Polarization in Quantum OpticsAlfredo Luis

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Provides eminently readable review articles in the field of optics, with both fundamental and applied topics addressed