Selected Works of Emil Wolf (With Commentary) [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Wolf Emil
• Pubblicazione: Singapore, : World Scientific Publishing Company, 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (673 p.)
• Disciplina: 535.092
• Soggetto topico: Physics; Optics; Physical Sciences & Mathematics; Physics - General
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; PREFACE; SECTION 1 Diffraction; 1.1 Phase Distribution Near Focus in an Aberration-free Diffraction Image; 1.2 Electromagnetic Diffraction in Optical Systems - II. Structure of the Image Field in an Aplanatic System; 1.3 Electromagnetic Field in the Neighborhood of the Focus of a Coherent Beam; 1.4 Energy Flow in the Neighborhood of the Focus of a Coherent Beam; 1.5 Generalization of the Maggi-Rubinowicz Theory of the Boundary Diffraction Wave Part I; 1.6 Generalization of the Maggi-Rubinowicz Theory of the Boundary Diffraction Wave Part II ; 1.7 Consistent Formulation of Kirchhoff's Diffraction Theory1.8 Conditions for the Validity of the Debye Integral Representation of Focused Fields; 1.9 Three-dimensional Intensity Distribution Near the Focus in Systems of Different Fresnel Numbers; 1.10 Interference of Converging Spherical Waves with Application to the Design of Compact Disks; SECTION 2 Radiation Theory and String Excitations; 2.1 Theory of Cerenkovian Effects; 2.2 New Model for the Interaction Between a Moving Charged Particle and a Dielectric, and the Cherenkov Effect ; 2.3 Multipole Expansions and Plane Wave Representations of the Electromagnetic Field2.4 Radiating and Nonradiating Classical Current Distributions and the Fields They Generate; 2.5 Non-radiating Monochromatic Sources and Their Fields; 2.6 A New Method for Specifying Nonradiating, Monochromatic,Scalar Sources and their Fields; 2.7 Nonpropagating String Excitations; SECTION 3 Coherence and Statistical Optics; 3.1 A Macroscopic Theory of Interference and Diffraction of Light from Finite Sources - I. Fields with a Narrow Spectral Range ; 3.2 A Macroscopic Theory of Interference and Diffraction of Light from Finite Sources - II. Fields with a Spectral Range of Arbitrary Width3.3 Optics in Terms of Observable Quantities; 3.4 The Coherence Properties of Optical Fields; 3.5 Coherence Properties of Partially Polarized Electromagnetic Radiation; 3.6 Theory of Photoelectric Detection of Light Fluctuations; 3.7 Quantum Dynamics in Phase Space; 3.8 Ordering of Operators and Phase Space Descriptions in Quantum Optics; 3.9 Angular Distribution of Radiant Intensity from Sources of Different Degrees of Spatial Coherence ; 3.10 Coherence Properties of Lambertian and Non-Lambertian Sources3.11 Spectral Coherence and the Concept of Cross-spectral Purity; 3.12 Partially Coherent Sources Which Produce the Same Far-field Intensity Distribution as a Laser; 3.13 New Theory of Partial Coherence in the Space-frequency Domain: Part I: Spectra and Cross-spectra of Steady-state Sources; 3.14 New Theory of Partial Coherence in the Space-frequency Domain. Part II: Steady-state Fields and Higher-order Correlations; 3.15 Young's Interference Fringes with Narrow-band Light; 3.16 Coherence Theory of Laser Resonator Modes ; 3.17 Invariance of the Spectrum of Light on Propagation
• Sommario/riassunto: This invaluable book presents most of the important papers of Emil Wolf, published over half-a-century. It covers chiefly diffraction theory (especially the analysis of the focal region), the theory of direct and inverse scattering, phase-space methods in quantum mechanics, the foundation of radiometry, phase conjugation and coherence theory. Several papers which have become classics of the optical literature are included, such as those on Wolf's rigorous formulation of the theory of partial coherence and partial polarization, the introduction of diffraction tomography, and his discovery of co
• Titolo autorizzato: Selected Works of Emil Wolf (With Commentary)
• ISBN: 1-281-96077-2; 981-281-187-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782275003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: World Scientific Series in 20th Century Physics