ICO Book IV consists of 30 chapters written by internationally renowned leaders in the different subjects covered. It provides a broad and authoritative overview of research currently underway in the fields of optical science and engineering thoughout the world. The chapters will prove interesting and useful not only to specialists in optical science and engineering but also to a wider audience of scientists, engineers and managers who need to keep up with the current trends in optics and photonics.

Klappentext

This book gives a broad and authoritative overview of research currently underway in the fields of optical science and engineering throughout the world. The contributions, which are written by internationally renowned scientists, are of particular interest to specialists and nonspecialists in the many disciplines covered. They are less formal than the standard technical reviews found in academic journals and this is what makes the book accessible to readers who are not specialists in optical science and engineering.

Inhalt

Fundamental Optics (General, Physical and Quantum Optics).- Optical Twist.- Principles and Fundamentals of Near Field Optics.- Spin-Orbit Interaction of a Photon: Theory and Experimentation on the Mutual Influence of Polarization and Propagation.- Atoms and Cavities: The Birth of a Schrödinger Cat of the Radiation Field.- Quantum Tomography of Wigner Functions from Incomplete Data.- Information Optics.- Some New Aspects of the Resolution in Gaussian Pupil Optics.- Multichannel Photography with Digital Fourier Optics.- Holographic Optics for Beamsplitting and Image Multiplication.- Image Restoration, Enhancement and Target Location with Local Adaptive Linear Filters.- Fuzzy Problem for Correlation Recognition in Optical Digital Image Processing.- Optical Communication (Photonics and Optoelectronics).- All-Optical Regeneration for Global-Distance Fiber-Optic Communications.- Non-quantum Cryptography for Secure Optical Communications.- Optical Materials and Processing.- Pulsed Laser Deposition: An Overview.- Absolute Scale of Quadratic Nonlinear-Optical Susceptibilities.- Optical Technologies.- Femtosecond Fourier Optics: Shaping and Processing of Ultrashort Optical Pulses.- Aperture-modulated Diffusers (AMDs).- Optical Properties of Quasiperiodic Structures: Linear and Nonlinear Analysis.- Optical Metrology (Optical Systems).- Diffractive Optical Elements in Materials Inspection.- Multiple-Wavelength Interferometry for Absolute Distance Measurement.- Speckle Metrology: Some Newer Techniques and Applications.- Limits of Optical Range Sensors and How to Exploit Them.- Imaging Spectroscopy for the Non-invasive Investigation of Paintings.- Biomedical Optics.- Optical Coherence Tomography in Medicine.- The Spectral Optimization of Human Vision: Some Paradoxes, Errors and Resolutions.- Others.- Optical Methods for Reproducing Sounds from Old Phonograph Records.