Progress in Optics, Vol. 49

E. Wolf (Ed.)9780444527325, 044452732X

In the fourty-six years that have gone by since the first volume of Progress in Optics was published, optics has become one of the most dynamic fields of science. The volumes in this series which have appeared up to now contain more than 300 review articles by distinguished research workers, which have become permanent records for many important developments.- Metamaterials- Polarization Techniques- Linear Baisotropic Mediums- Ultrafast Optical Pulses- Quantum Imaging- Point-Spread Funcions- Discrete Wigner Functions

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Table of contents :
Content:
Preface
Pages v-vi
Emil Wolf

Chapter 1 Gaussian apodization and beam propagation Review Article
Pages 1-96
Virendra N. Mahajan

Chapter 2 Controlling nonlinear optical processes in multi-level atomic systems Review Article
Pages 97-175
Amitabh Joshi, Min Xiao

Chapter 3 Photonic crystals Review Article
Pages 177-313
Henri Benisty, Claude Weisbuch

Chapter 4 Symmetry properties and polarization descriptors for an arbitrary electromagnetic wavefield Review Article
Pages 315-380
Christian Brosseau, Aristide Dogariu

Chapter 5 Quantum cryptography Review Article
Pages 381-454
Miloslav Dušek, Norbert Lütkenhaus, Martin Hendrych

Chapter 6 Optical quantum cloning Review Article
Pages 455-545
Nicolas J. Cerf, Jaromír Fiurášek

Author index for Volume 49
Pages 547-569

Subject index for Volume 49
Pages 571-574

Contents of previous volumes
Pages 575-585

Cumulative index – Volumes 1–49
Pages 587-600